Microsoft teases with Secret Project
By Steve Malone
Posted on 27 Feb 2006 at 11:00
The Blogosphere is in overdrive concerning a strange new announcement due from Microsoft.
A site known only as origamiproject.com, which has been registered by Microsoft, shows some kind of animation which appears to be related to networking.
The text that accompanies the graphics makes only gnomic statements more suited to Stanley Kubrick's HAL rather than the kind of hype we expect from Redmond and produces lines like Hello, Do you know me? Do you know what I can do? or how i can change your life? You will....
The animation finished with the date 2 March. There are three weeks marked at the bottom of the screen with only the first highlighted. Clearly Microsoft plans for the marketing campaign behind the device to hold our attention well into March - which incidentally would clash with some new announcements due from Apple next week.
All very strange. Speculation ranges (inevitably) from an iPod killer, a Blackberry killer, and an iTunes killer to a PSP killer. Note that all of these are clones of existing technologies indicating that either the bloggers or Microsoft have no imagination. A general consensus (apart from those swearing it is a light sabre) is that it is some kind of remote wireless device with a folding (origami geddit?) screen.
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