600,000 kids now equipped with XO computer

The New Scientist reports on Dec 18th 2008:

"One Laptop Per Child ready for version 2.0
The ultra-cheap XO computer from the One Laptop Per Child project is now being used by 600,000 children in the developing world, the ambitious project's founder Nicholas Negroponte told New Scientist in an interview yesterday.

"That's not promised machines, or machines that might be on their way, that is actual laptops in use by children in their schools and homes today," the former MIT Media Lab director said...."

Negroponte has put on a good show at TED: The vision behind One Laptop per Child.