Original URL: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/02/ms_origami_project_launch/
Updated Microsoft has pushed back the unveiling of its mysterious Origami Project, believed to be a consumer-friendly tablet PC, to next week. The website dedicated to the project last week said we would "learn more" today, 2 March, but the site now says we'll "find out" about it on 9 March.
Next Thursday is, of course, the opening day of the CeBIT show in Hannover.
On Monday this week, a video allegedly leaked out showing a handheld wireless PC with pen input. In the promotional movie, it was used to play and record music, do satellite navigation, play games and surf the Internet remotely. Think a truly personal computer small enough to take with you wherever you, but big enough and sufficiently powerful to do big jobs, not just basic, PDA-level stuff.
As we noted at the time, this is the kind of thing Intel has been talking about a lot of late, though the chip maker doesn't believe it will have processors that can run Windows Vista on battery for a whole day until 2010.
As several Register readers have noted, the Origami website HTML refers to a "Mobile PC running Windows XP", so MS clearly isn't waiting for Vista. ®
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/04/cebit_expecting_loss/
Lenovo retires from CeBIT (23 October 2006)
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Microsoft re-org elevates Office chief (24 March 2006)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/microsoft_windows_office_reorganization/
Origami's the wrapper for a small PC (8 March 2006)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/03/08/origami_umpc_clunker/
Intel spills beans on UMPC (7 March 2006)
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MS, Intel gear up to unveil ultra-mobile tablet PC (27 February 2006)
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