http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/ Engadget Comments for Microsoft promises "Haiku" PC as penance for UMPC http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Jun 7th 2006 7:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Microsoft got something right
Don't believe the hype.]]>Jun 7th 2006 7:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/origami disappoints.
now wait for haiku.]]>Jun 7th 2006 7:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Jun 7th 2006 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
The internet is more and more about contributing, rather than dumbly consuming media, as such, data entry is pretty common. Rare is it you will use a computer for more than 20 minutes without touching the keyboard.

As such, and especially with HWR still being so very very dire, any device that eschews a useable keyboard throws away a whole host of functionality, and thus limits the applications of the device.

So, in conclusion: Flybooks all round!]]>Jun 7th 2006 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Funny video online
Both of them still suck

As seen on Break.com]]>Jun 7th 2006 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/We'll do better the next time!
Just wait a few years.]]>Jun 7th 2006 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/it will take ms three tries
to get this thing right]]>Jun 7th 2006 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Jun 7th 2006 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Jun 7th 2006 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
Data is entered
as you should really know
with that big stylus
(duh)]]>Jun 7th 2006 8:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Jun 7th 2006 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
At 4-500 I would pick it up as a highly mobile companion for my laptop. The thing has serious potential as a meeting reference material gadget. But at 1000 it pretty much needs to be a primary device or have some highly compelling functionality just not provided by a typical laptop form. Even at 500 it is at the extreme outside of 'periphial' range and without an elegant input solution it just isn't going to make primary usage ranks.

Bluetooth or even worse USB cable plug in keyboards just are not going to cut it with this thing. Its to awkward to have to connect the damn things. Blue tooth has some potential at least. But you still have to haul the extra bit around and then arrange everything so it works.

ONe answer might be the new projected keyboard tech. If that tech could be rolled into the form factor that might make a dandy solution. Just put it up on its kickstand and a full sized keyboard is projected in front of it to use. Thinkgeek has a stand alone example out there. Still expensive at 180 but that form is the size of a deck of card and that is hiding batteries. Seems to me that could be probably be incorporated into a UMPC if someone wanted to do it.
]]>Jun 7th 2006 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
recognising script
is very hard for Windows
god I miss Newton]]>Jun 7th 2006 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
We are Microsoft
Give us all of your money
And your first born child]]>Jun 7th 2006 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/it will take ms three tries
to get this thing right"

apple, save us from
this horrible crap
give us mac tablet
]]>Jun 7th 2006 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/make the fishes laugh each time
they are not stupid

]]>Jun 7th 2006 9:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
Looks like he fell for the marketing and Microsoft Think.

Was it hard to tell this is just a re-named tablet pc? The original failed. This failed. The next one will fail.

Microsoft should do what they do best: copying Apple. The fact that Apple has figured out this is a bad idea and not doing it would of saved Microsoft a ton of money and embarrassment.]]>Jun 7th 2006 9:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Jun 7th 2006 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/OPEN SOURCE for life]]>Jun 7th 2006 9:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
I keep waiting for Apple to come out with a tablet since they actually seem to care about user interface design, but until then I'm holding off on these UMPCs.
]]>Jun 7th 2006 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
For my small # of complaints about tablet pc (no accomodating lefties) hw recog. isn't one of them.

Use cursive and not printing.]]>Sep 26th 2007 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
Quite frankly I dont see the market for a UMPC or this, which I guess is why I am not a market analyst. If it was priced around the $400-500 mark, I could see it having serious potential, but at the rate it is going with the cost trending towards $1000, you can buy a decent, not nessessarily good, but a decent laptop for that much.

I know the emphasis is on MOBILITY, but common, without a keyboard I think text entering would be cumbersome to say the least, and if you are putting a keyboard on it, why dont you just use a laptop? I think a something like a suped up PDA would be a better route.
]]>Jun 7th 2006 10:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/so send it on to Redmond
so this can be over

please apple save me
so MS doesn't kill me with crap
I don't want to die]]>Jun 7th 2006 10:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
please apple save me
so MS doesn't kill me soon
I don't want to die]]>Jun 7th 2006 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
Does everyone conveniently forget that MS said the UMPC platform would GET to $500, not just COME OUT at $500. What part of that don't you all understand?

With MS you have your CHOICE of desktops, laptops, tablets, UMPC's, now this, smartphones, PDA's, and everything inbetween.

With Apple you get your choice of TWO COMPUTERS!

Wake up, sheeple. ]]>Jun 7th 2006 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Jun 7th 2006 11:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
The UMPC is a perfect fit. We pre-ordered one several months ago, and finally received our trial unit about a week ago. If I'm not mistaken BestBuy sold out in 24 hours! Should our trial be successful, we'll easily order quite a few units.

]]>Jun 7th 2006 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
Though I hate to engage in the usual Apple/Microsoft war, I must say that after seeing how wonderful Apple's hardware is, I'd be first in line to buy an Apple UMPC and slap a hot new copy of Windows on it... and even deal with the small problems of a beta release.

The idea that Apple would someday release a portable touch-input device is amazing, and adding to it the fact that one would most likely be able to run some iteration of a Microsoft product CAN make everyone happy, at least to some degree.

Although, I suppose fanboys will never cease to exist.]]>Jun 8th 2006 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
I'm waiting on the n-th generation of this product: the Harakiri...
]]>Jun 8th 2006 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Jun 8th 2006 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
" :-P in haiku form perhaps, but you need to mention something about the seasons or nature for it to be true haiku"

One more form factor
Does little and costs too much
Burns us like Summer

Sore ga ii ?]]>Jun 8th 2006 2:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Images on book sized screen
Restful days.

THAT gentlemen, is a haiku.
]]>Jun 8th 2006 2:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
Jeff, not to be picky, but haiku must be written in 3-5-3 format, not 4-5-2 ]]>Jun 8th 2006 4:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
Isn't it 5:7:5 which is a tanrenga aka hokku aka haiku?]]>Jun 8th 2006 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Jun 8th 2006 6:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/
Please show us all these MICROSOFT desktops, laptops, tablets, UMPC's,smartphones, PDA's, and everything inbetween that you speak of, because I've never seen a MICROSOFT desktop, laptop, etc.

Apple? Heard of something called the iPod have ya? Apple MacBook? PowerBook? Macintosh? iMac? Yes.......... they make those.

Microsoft fanboi, wake-up.]]>Jun 8th 2006 7:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Jun 8th 2006 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Something better will come out
Surely in a year]]>Jun 8th 2006 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Jun 8th 2006 1:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Webpad - Dead
SmartDisplays - Dead
Tablet PCs - Struggling
UMPCs - ???
Haiku? - ???



]]>Jun 9th 2006 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/07/microsoft-promises-haiku-pc-as-penance-for-umpc/Jun 10th 2006 4:55PM