Origami. Another Microsoft Bob? 1
Who remembers Microsoft Bob?
One person? That’s one more than bought it.
The Register seems to think that Origami, the current Microsoft ballyhoo, is another Bob (please follow the Origami link–it’s spectacularly pretentious):
Wintel has been trying to make this kind of computer a success for 15 years, dating back to the WinPad, and Bill Gates hinted at a reborn Tablet almost a year ago. But small PCs have proved to be a graveyard for manufacturers.
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In San Francisco this week, Intel’s mobile products vice president Sean Maloney used Nokia’s 770 Linux tablet to show how one needed “the full Web” – which apparently only runs properly on a Wintel x86 device. The UMPC uses the same 800 x 480 screen resolution, but it’s a lot bigger, having to house an Intel processor. Nokia’s tablet is $350.
Oh, yeah, and did I mention? Linux rocks.
March 9, 2006 at 11:35 pm
I always remember the late WGN radio morning host Bob Collins, who interviewed a computer guru about Microsoft Bob, and said “You say this is an operating system for people who are clueless about computers… should I ask why they chose the name they did?”