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Ivan Krstić ( former OLPC Director of Security Architecture ) resigned in late February 2008 because, he said, learning was not what the OLPC was about even for Negroponte ( see quote below ).

On April 22, 2008, Walter Bender, who was the former President of Software and Content for the OLPC project, stepped down from his post and left OLPC to found Sugar Labs.

Bender reportedly had a disagreement with Negroponte about the future of the OLPC and their future partnerships.

Negroponte also showed some doubt about the exclusive use of open source software for the project and made suggestions supporting a move towards adding Windows XP which Microsoft was in the process of porting over to the XO hardware.

Microsoft's Windows XP, however, is not seen by some as a sustainable operating system.

Microsoft announced on May 16, 2008, that they have let them have Windows XP for $ 3 per computer.

It would be offered as an option on XO-1 laptops and possibly be able to dual boot alongside Linux.

However, no significant deployments elected to purchase Windows licenses.