Origami Project: "The Mobile PC running Windows XP"

Hardware isn't really among our core competencies here at Download Squad, but since we keep getting comments on our previous posts about Origami, Microsoft's vastly successful viral marketing campaign slash upcoming "ultramobile lifestyle PC," I figure I ought to keep you up to speed. The other day Microsoft updated the Origami Project web site for "Week 2," which isn't much more interesting than Week 1 was. A hidden comment in the source code, however, says "Origami Project: the Mobile PC running Windows XP," which is a very dull way to confirm what we already know. The teaser says we'll find out all about it on March 9, which happens to be the first day of Germany's CeBit electronics show.

Oh, I suppose you're wondering what's up with the above photo. That's a tablet PC reference box that Microsoft showed off at last year's WinHEC, which our pals at Engadget say is closer to what Origami will look like than that chunky thing from the year-old promo video that's been going around. Engadget's sources say that Origami will run XP Tablet PC Edition. What's more, Engadget has divined that it will be running on Samsung and Intel hardware rather than anything built by Microsoft and that the Ultra Mobile PC tech Intel is set to unveil on Tuesday is one and the same.

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