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[Crazy Harry]

Microsoft is beginning this whole ilovebees again...

http://www.origamiproject.com/

So what about a handheld?
Gizmondo is officialy dead, the origami project site asks "Where I can go?"

Discuss

Edit: Now i'm looking at it again, it could also be a worldwide wireless network for Live. The picture they show is used a lot to visualize a network.

 

[7Th]

Touch me.

:lol

 

[meltpotato]

03.02.06?

there is NO WAY something handheld related could be announced then.

Touch Me? oh man... seriously... that date!

 

[RidgeCityFM]

maybe its for windows vista and isnt xbox related at all?

 

[Reilly]

THURSDAYTON

 

[eeyore the donkey]

seems for windows vista

 

[MrPing1000]

I expect Microsoft to do something. They have to really or else they will drown at e3. Halo 3 would do the trick. Handheld? Nope don't think so, Rare worked on the DS (and might still be?)

 

[Smiles and Cries]

same day as DS lite

 

[GhaleonEB]

It's either for Vista or Office 2007. Both have big anouncements (date, packages, features) due in the next month or so.

 

[Crazy Harry]

maybe its for windows vista and isnt xbox related at all?

That is indeed also a good possibility.
But would Windows consumers be into something like that? I think not.
Or maybe it's not a ARG at all and it's just a anouncement of an anouncement which would make it suitable for Windows or Office consumers

forget about windows 95 hype much? :lol only back then the internet wasnt mainstream.

Oh yeah
What was that all about? Man! I thought everyone lost it's mind.
I am still wondering how they managed to create that hype back then (I don't live in the US so I was very much suprised by it).

 

[RidgeCityFM]

That is indeed also a good possibility.
But would Windows consumers be into something like that? I think not.

forget about windows 95 hype much? :lol only back then the internet wasnt mainstream.

 

[belgurdo]

Whut am dis? Xboy?

 

[Mr.Hat]

I think it has to do with their new application suite, Sparkle, Acrylic etc. Doesn't look like it has to do with games.

 

[fse]

maybe the 360 web cam?

 

[sonikokaruto]

have you ever felt that portable gaming needed a touch screen?

 

[Hydro_Alexis]

Whut am dis? Xboy?

:lol

 

[Shogun]

I'm interning for Microsoft, so I can safely say... I have no fucking clue.

 

[GhaleonEB]

On a slightly different note, Scoble has a blog post where he introduces The Origami Project website. He doesn't tell us anything about the product except that it is a "new kind of device."

http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2006/2/23/2972

"Device" does not imply software. Smartphone? Microsoft's take on the iPod? Hmmm.

 

[Community Forum]

The teaser just says "find out more on 3.2.06."

On the bottom of the flash, there are links for "week1" , "week 2" , and "week 3" , of course only week 1 is clickable right now.

So anyhoo I am betting we won't find out anything significant until "week 3" or afterwards.

If you revealed on week 2, why would anyone come back for week 3?

Or maybe not.