Microsoft had nothing to do with OLPC&#x27;s downfall.  It had everything to do with failed project management, and at the highest levels, failed leadership.  Expectations (on national levels) were not managed correctly, strange omissions in implementation (such as even rudimentary technical support) crippled uptake, and in the end participating nations had to work with volunteers to get anything done.  The volunteer effort continues.<p>Eventually the organization was mismanaged into oblivion; there is currently some while-label vulture in possession of the commercial brand, and the non-profit arm has progressed rapidly into irrelevance.<p>As bad as things got (and are), OLPC never shipped a single machine running Windows -- if there are any out there, the participating school program installed it.  As for FLOSS fans, mostly they made a lot of noise on blogs without ever having actually been involved with the program.  If they had, they would have known that OLPC didn&#x27;t spend a dime on Microsoft support; MS was allowed to send engineers to develop support within OpenFirmware for loading Windows, should the recipient nation desire it.