> Microsoft gave ASUS a deal they couldn't refuse.
and afaik others too, to flood the market with more "practical" options than the XO, so the XO wouldn't take off in other parts of the world
can't have computer classes without having microsoft computer classes, after all. Gotta get em' while they are young.
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