OLPC - slipping to the Dark Side?

From a purely technical perspective, the news that OLPC is in talks with Microsoft "to develop a dual-boot system to put both Linux and Windows on laptops aimed at kids in developing countries" has to be the most retarded thing I've heard in a long time.

Why would anyone create such a beautiful thing as XO, only to crap on it by jamming in any version of a Microsoft OS? Very disappointing - even with a dual boot approach. Why bother?

Stranger still is Negroponte's rationale that

Microsoft has embraced the open-source community over the past few years in a very different way than before.

The best response to which came from a comment on another blog:

Microsoft embraces the open-source community like a dog embraces a leg.

Nothing a good neutering can't correct.