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Show of hands: Who wants multi-touch on a PC (and why)?
All about Microsoft —
... screens to perform tasks that are easier and better done with a mouse and keyboard? I don’t buy the argument some make that because multi-touch is well-suited for phones, it automatically makes sense on PCs, too. Maybe multi-touch makes more sense if you are using a small-screen netbook or ultra-mobile PC (if that class of machines still exists out there), but on a regular, full-size laptop/desktop? I just don’t see it. I’ve heard some claim that Microsoft simply wanted to beat Apple to the punch with something new on the user-interface front, and multi-touch seemed like the ...
Origami Otaku
w3sh magazine —
... L’origami est un art de pliage Japonais. A ne pas confondre avec la couche logicielle Origami qui équipe les UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC), ou encore le forfait téléphonie ...
RIP UMPC?
Mobility Site —
... In our experience, these customers never utilized any of the consumer-friendly "Origami Experience" applications , which were designed by Microsoft to increase productivity, because these programs were simply not developed for business usage. ...
The Smartphone is Destined to Replace the PC
Technologizer —
... What’s next? Surely not Ultra-Mobile PCs, the mini-Windows devices that almost nobody except Microsoft and hardware manufacturers ever got excited over. The next computer is the smartphone–ones like the iPhone, the BlackBerry, the T-Mobile G1, and many of the handsets that ...
The Trouble With Tiny Windows Computers
Technologizer —
... out of time to make it as a stand-alone entity.
If OQO folds, it’ll be sad–but the funny thing is that it’s already a pock-marked survivor in the product category of tiny Windows devices. The similar FlipStart PC (backed by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen) was on the market for only a year. And as far as I can tell, Sony has discontinued its pocket-sized UX handheld. Microsoft’s once-hyped Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC) platform, meanwhile, is alive but far from thriving.
And yet, the funny thing is that there’s never been more ...
MIDs: Successful or Not?
dailywireless.org —
... to makers producing netbooks in order to clear its extra inventory, but has started to notify partners that the next-generation Moorestown platform will focus only on the MID market and not cross into other segments like Netbooks. ...
Dell's Android iPod challenger: Microsoft in play?
The Seattle Times: Brier Dudley's blog —
... , after a code name Microsoft used for its early stab at the category in 2006, long before the Google-backed Android operating system surfaced. ...
Is 2010 the year of the tablet? Nah.
CrunchGear —
... There’s a lot of talk of 2010 being the year of the tablet or, more correctly, the year of the Mobile Internet Device (MID). These devices were supposed to change the world a few years ago (remember Origami?) but never did and we basically bumped over MIDs and into netbooks, resulting in the ...
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