With speculation flying about what 'fun new products' Apple plans to announce next week, from video iPods to DVR-enabled Mac minis, Microsoft has its own surprise up its sleeve. The web is abuzz with guesses as to what the Redmond company plans to unveil at origamiproject.com on March 2nd. The site, registered by Microsoft and 'discovered' early this week, provides few hints. A Flash animation pops up three questions: 'do you know what I can do? Or where I can go? Or how I can change your life?' It ends with the text, 'Learn more on 3.2.06'.
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Follow the following link, it will popup the main page, click on Work > BrandTheatre > Microsoft Origami:
http://www.d-kitchen.com/launch_center.htm
And away you go...!
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Hi,
in the white case it looks a little bit like a toy 
But: Microsoft can make such things become very big. E.g.: The microsoft handwriting recognition is much better than the one on the Nokia n770. And with better interaction with Microsoft windows this product can be really successful. I'm curious about it.
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Ok, anyone get just a bit overly creeped by the whole
"Do you know how I can change your life" thing?
Just struck me as a big brother AI thing. Dunno. Watch it again.
It's kinda like "Where do you want to be steered today?"
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Anyone seen John Connor?
Edited 2006-02-26 16:53
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Looks like an evolution of the WinCE-based displays that would also work as portable PCs when disconnect from the main CPU (I can't recall the name right now...). This will probably have a great connectivity with Microsoft's OS and media technologies (portable players, medias centers and media formats).
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This is not a competitor to the Nokia 770. The 770 is designed to be a small form factor mobile device (PDA-ish). Origami is a tablet PC, you can't put it in your pocket.
It's really funny how they tried to make the Origami look portable. <Kid playing video games gets up to leave>. "This thing is to fscking big to put anywhere, I guess I'll just carry it in my hand. What convenience!"
The only use for this thing is for surfing when on the couch or something. Nice to do but it won't be worth it at the price tag they are going to be setting. It will flop and slowly fade away. Microsoft has always had a disconnect with consumers.
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Well maybe not $100.00 ...but there is no way this toy will be $700.00! it's no more than a PSP with windows CE on it.. My money goes on a cheap, verrrry cheap price to take on the $100.00 laptop. Do you think MS is just going to sit on there hands and let a 100 million cheap laptops get spread all over this planet with LINUX on them? They will take the loss just to spread there warz.
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