OK, So I Was Wrong About Origami

LOS ANGELES -- A year ago Microsoft tried to manipulate the launch of its Origami ultra-mobile PC (UMPC). The reaction wasn't quite what Microsoft anticipated: Origami was basically laughed back into the laboratory. Even I piled on with a blog entry that sniped, "Origami is proof of that old adage that when what you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Microsoft's got Windows, so everything looks like a Windows PC. It's a company that needs some new ideas. Meanwhile, I don't expect we'll hear much more about Origami." So this week at Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) here what am I hearing about? Right. Origami.