OLPC circling the drain.

Big surprise - I'm just oh so shocked.

Who could have foreseen that this was the biggest tech boondoggle since the "raise 9 bazillion dollars to put a generic Linux logo on a race car" fantasy?

Oh yeah, pretty much everyone that wasn't some raving Linux fanboy or brain dead "save the (3rd world) children" goody two shoe-er.

At the CES show 2008, Microsoft showed coffee table computers with touch screen facility without keyboard or mouse. The technology is for small devices such as cellphones. Good for OLPC to take advantage of existing technology and save many components for low cost production.