I’ve just read the ChannelInsider article about the ’second-chance’ that Microsoft is giving its UMPC’s. I was going to call it a headline-grabbing article but thats maybe a bit too heavy. Since when is a ’second wave’ a ’second chance’ though?

‘Second chance’ would imply that a first-attempt has been, gone and failed. I’m not the biggest Microsoft fan but come on guys, give them a break.

The Origami project team completed its first deliverable - a standard for the partner manufacturers to work to - and since then it’s been up to the manufacturers to make devices and market them as they want within this specification. We’ve only seen two Origami UMPC devices hit the market so far but we’re only 3 months on from the launch and we’ve known for a while that there are already other things in the pipeline. Anyway, its no wonder thats there’s been a pause in the product releases, the mainstream press gave the project such a knock-down that it would make any product manager postpone a launch and double-check the marketing plan.

One other point that continues to crop up is that people believe that ‘Haiku’ is a new project. Its not. Its the name given by Otto Berks, the Origami project manager, to an early concept. This concept was (and probably still is) the main target of the Origami project. I’m not sure of the current status of the Origami project team but if they are still together, one of their tasks will be to continue to promote the Haiku concept to the partners.

So, in summary, it seems to be business as usual with project Origami and its UMPC’s.

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Steve / Chippy