One Laptop Per Child Teams up with Microsoft

Nice – seems a test I came up with the last semester for an ongoing social program is playing out as Microsoft is now teaming up with the OLPC group.

— One of the tests I purposed to see if the US release would work:

Lastly, one of the things mentioned in the article that I am interested in is whether or not with this US release the laptops will get more support in the development company through new useful software. This would be a longitudinal study where I would assess the current amount of programs available for the platform then after the US release takes off keep track of new program releases over two years. If it holds up to Moore’s law, it will be successful if the amount of programs available doubles over those two years.

It’s exciting to see things like this even if I just came up with the idea for a class paper.