The Microsoft Origami team released the software of tomorrow. The Origami Experience for Windows Vista is now available for download. It is a combination of an application launcher, media center, and photo viewer. It's sleek, stylish, and smooth. Very easy on the eyes. Watch the following 10 minute video:
Software of tomorrow indeed - a shame it has to run on the Ultra-Mobile PCs of today. My particular unit was announced early March of 2006 and started shipping early May of 2006. This seven-month-old unit got heavily shafted by Vista (as previously reported) but also gets choked by the Made-for-UMPC "Experience Pack."
Dear readers: Since this is more of a power-user/hacks blog and less of a news blog, I'm sad to say that this is going to be the end of my Vista coverage for some time. I will still continue to investigate software, accessories, and hacks for UMPCs, but cannot offer "full testing scenarios" until I have a Vista UMPC. I'm putting XP back on as soon as possible and won't touch Vista until it's time to buy a new PC or ultra-mobile.
(Origami Experience and Windows Vista are trademarks of Microsoft)
5 comments:
Wow, at least the Apollo 13 crew made it back safely. Poor UMPC has to be gutted.
Was that running in native (800x480) mode or a scaled resolution?
I ran it at 800x480 to try to give it as much video memory as possible and lower the overhead.
Well, what I saw was or it's a lot worse than my experience with Media Center in my eo.
Playing video was exactly the same experience but at least I had a little better experience with Media Center and my music collection.
Did you tried disabling the indexing?
Here is a link to Origami Experience running on a R2H which to me is the slower performance you can find in all the Celeron UMPC in the market.
Link
You can see a totally different experience of what you are getting in a UMPC with VIA.
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