We're not even through the woods yet on
Microsoft's Origami buzz
campaign and now we're supposed to come under siege by a second, Microsoft Alexandria? Apparently a designer by the
name of Issara Willenskomer did a promo video for Microsoft that was set to air during the Gates CES keynote (we don't
know the year, however; was it
2005,
2006?), but was apparently
pulled last minute -- yet at the time of this writing is still allowed to air online, lucky us / what a coincidence.
The subject? Yet another mysterious Microsoft product called "Alexandria" -- "mysterious" because
they won't show what the product is, just that it's something that apparently runs on handhelds and laptops alike and
that nimbly gathers large crowds of disaffected youth and buttoned-down adults, alike. The video closes with "The
future of entertainment / summer 2006," fade to black. Here we go again.
[Thanks, Alex]
Update: After a closer inspection of a much
higher resolution version of the
supposed-Origami pic from
yesterday, we happened to notice an icon labeled Alexandria on the device's desktop. Given what's on screen and the
"future of entertainment" bit, can we assume this might have something to do with same Windows Media Video
subscription system used in Vongo, perhaps? Thanks, Jakob.
posted March 7th 2006 9:34AM
You can get a Sony Vaio that's smaller than that. And that's got a processor measured in Ghz, a high amount of RAM and 10s of Gigabytes of memory space.
Oh, and a keyboard. I'd MUCH rather carry the vaio around.
Apple and Microsoft partnership? Unlikely...
Origami backwards: iMagiro.
If it happens, I said it first. (lol)
This looks a lot like the new version of the Windows Media Player
The Great Library of Alexandria was burned and countless pieces of ancient literature and history were lost forever. Perfect imagery for a new Microsoft product!
All I got to say is... Where all the white people at? I saw I think a total of 2 maybe. Reverse discrimination people!
Oh, so what... you can only be excited about Mac releasing info about future products but when Microsoft does it you're all, "here we go again, this is totally lame"?
I agree with Doe... Gates seems to have taken his cue (yet again) from the Cupertino lot... leaking all sorts of info at the right time to generate a buzz... and it seems like it's working... not as effectively as Apple's, but I see at least 1 origami post here, and elsewhere everyday (getting really tired of it, BTW).
Cheers,
FYI you can still see the video on youtube
""Apple and Microsoft partnership? Unlikely...""
Macworld Boston 1997, right?
just went to live.com and says "server too busy"
kinda crazy for ms?
Ah...the 'disaffected youth'. Is this what happened to those people from the original origami video when they heard that their little video was not going to be aired ?
Kind of funny...when I first saw the burningman-hipster/bronco-photographer/house-wife-T-shirt-designer/ritalin-gamer video I thought it a very sad attempt to target the *perceived* Apple demographic. But it looks like MS is instead going after the "milque-toste-post-MILLENIUM-'street-cred'" crowd.
But considering the former has about 3% market share and the latter (sadly) has the rest I suppose I can't fault the logic...
And yeah...the 'mullet-chick' makes the ad SO ridiculous I can almost forgive it...almost...
Actually, the wheelchair kid is in the pic. He's in the bottom right with a reversed baseball cap.
The future of entertainment is tokenism!?
Apple innovation is paying to download low-rez postage-stamp-size versions of TV I get for free over the air in true HDTV with DOLBY 5.1 sound. And I record them with my HDTV WONDER and do anything I want with them...no DRM.Oh...I forgot their other innovation...paying to download horrible compressed audio files.Sorry Stevie,but I prefer full resolution sound like CD,SUPERAUDIO CD,or DVD AUDIO.Compressed music is for kids that don`t know what true high-fidelity sounds like.Innovation,my ass!