Whatever happened to Origami…. errrrr, the Courier

Microsoft is an ultra innovative powerhouse that when they are not creating the next big thing is because they must be tweaking its famous Clippy, so it’s natural that companies like Microsoft every so often come out with nice ideas, the Origami was their greatest and as We all expected it changed they way we interacted with mobile devices, folding a powerful desktop system into a ultra small and lightweight mobile device is a work of art. The only problem with the Origami was that it wasn’t created to be a real product or strategy that work for a long time, it was launched to defuse the iPhone momentum and it failed miserably.

Microsoft blinded some partners and “helped” them to launch Origami or UMPC (Ultra Mobile PC) based devices, OQO, Samsung and others wasted million of dollars designing for a platform that wasn’t meant to be succesful, the rest of the story is that the UMPC or Origami didn’t fold well and everybody jumped ship.

HP Marketing Video…. great

To make things look more pathetics, Apple announced the iPad, a tablet-like device that will change the world [tablets have been out for years, I mean years] something that forced Microsoft to launch the Courier, a prototype tablet that will eat iPads, 2 screens, foldable (origami-style), touch and stylus, a device crafted for those that really need more than a clumsy iPad… hahahahaha, but the Courier wasn’t a real product, it was just a computer animation, created to defuse the iPad, so it’s NATURAL that after watching the iPad rolled out, Microsoft announced yesterday that Courier won’t ever see the light of day, it wasn’t really a new platform because it runs Windows 7 and Windows 7 wasn’t created for Tablets, ask HP about their rumored cancellation of the Windows 7 based Slate tablet, it is too big for those small tablets and it required a bigger/powerful processor that will only drain the battery.

So if you really believed that Microsoft will launch the Courier let me tell you that you are out of luck, it wasn’t even a real product or solid prototype, it was just a marketing effort to defuse the iPad, nothing more. Sorry for that, but the Courier looked to good to be true and coming from Microsoft made it look strange, but computer animation is one thing…. launching a real and innovative product is just another big thing. What really strike me is that the Courier looks like something created from Gizmodo.com, there is not pictures of the device from other sites that don’t have Gizmodo.com printed all over. Marketing or advertising and Gizmodo.com could have helped Microsoft launch the Courier into the media.

So stay tuned for the next Microsoft invention, just when Apple announced its next big thing.

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