Brandon LeBlanc has a great walk-through of the new RSS features in the Origami Experience 2.0 (and which take advantage of the Windows Vista RSS platform). Check it out! http://windowsvistablog.com/blogs/windowsexperience/archive/2008/05/20/origami-experience-2-0-part-2-rss.aspx-Ale...

Hello everyone! Origami Experience 2 offers "touch-first" experiences for playing media, browsing the web, and reading feeds on your UMPC.  We will be posting OX2 to this site very soon.  We are preparing the final download package and will...

What have we been doing since we released Origami Experience™ Pack 1.0 this time last year? Well, Origami™ Experience 2.0!   Origami Experience 2.0 is been shown at CES this week and is being made available to UMPC manufacturers for testing and...

I find my UMPC particularly useful for consuming audio media. Others have written about using the UMPC as a music or podcast player. I want to share what I've learned using the UMPC as an “internet radio” for listening to on-line radio stations. What...

Dear UMPC Enthusiasts, As part of our ongoing efforts to better serve the UMPC category, Microsoft is conducting a survey to gather additional data on UMPC usage and perceptions. If you own a UMPC, or are interested in UMPCs, we invite you to participate...

Greetings fellow UMPC fans. I joined the UMPC test team this year and have had the opportunity to play with many different UMPC systems. As a test guy, I can never leave well enough alone, and am always tearing things apart to see how they work, and pushing...

Since the early days of Digital Photography I knew I had found an area of art/technology that I was passionate about. I loved the ability to take images, quickly review them and then keep the images that mattered to me. Over the last few years, as Digital...

My name is Layla and I am a fairly new addition to the Origami team. Although I am new to the UMPC, I have worked with Tablet PCs and other devices in the mobile space for the last few years. Since I got my first Tablet PC in the summer of ’04 I have...

Over the weekend I helped out at a wedding by being the "official" DJ. Basically this meant that I have a fairly large music selection, and somewhere along the way someone believed I had some spare time, so the task fell to me. Deciding to use the UMPCThe...

I like my coffee in the morning. I like cereal, toast and a piece of fruit, at least during the weekdays.  But most of all, I like my media to be mobile around the house. It goes where my UMPC goes. What better time to engage mobile media than during...

I have been persuaded to try Bluetooth again. I’ve been waiting for a set of stereo headphones that I wouldn’t be completely ashamed to be seen wearing.  A Plantronics 590E recently came my way and I gave them a try. For once, I am reasonably...

Hi!  I'm Christine from the Microsoft Reader team.  Some of you may know me from some of the other device forums like PocketPCThoughts, Aximsite or the Microsoft.Public.Reader newsgroup under the name MSReadergirl. I know that...

Hello all you UMPCers out there. I am a tester (SDET to be precise) on the Origami Experience (OX) team. I am new to the team for version 2, but have worked at Microsoft for 7 years, including stints in PocketPC/Smartphone land when in its infancy,...

One of the most difficult aspects of a mobile computer is keeping it mobile. I'm sure everyone knows what I'm talking about - how many of you carry around your power bricks along with your UMPC just to plug it into the nearest wall outlet in order to...

After Jeremy's post I thought I would follow up with one of my own. While I'm "new" to this forum, I've been a Software Developer here at Microsoft for over five years. I've worked on various projects from Tablet PC ink technology to Windows...

To follow up from Oscar’s post this morning I want to give you a quick rundown of the new team. There is me (Jeremy), of course. I have been at Microsoft for 8 years and have been working with Dustin for the last 2 years. Among other releases, I worked...

Before I tell you a little bit about our plans and myself, I’d like to start by thanking Dustin and his team for the fantastic  job they did on Origami Experience 1.0 for UMPCs. Their product offers truly unprecedented ease of use and just looks...

Hi all, I'm happy to announce that Origami Experience has been published to the download center for UMPC users who install or upgrade to Windows Vista. If you don't know what Origami Experience is, read some of the previous blogs and check out the video...

Oh, and Emily and Jeremy filmed a video last week with On10 showing off the features of Origami Experience that went live earlier today. Check it out here: http://www.on10.net/Blogs/jesse/the-umpc-media-experience-takes-one-fat-leap-forward/...

Like Dustin mentioned in his latest post, Origami Experience™ is the newer, cooler, more functional version of the Program Launcher. Not only can you quickly open your programs, files, folders, or websites, but now you can now easily access your media...

Lately I've been seeing more and more articles appearing in the press about "Vistagami", but these references generally misrepresent what it actually is. First let me say that Vistagami is just an internal code name my team came up with to name the Windows...

Yes, you read correctly. I've been a bad boy lately. I haven't been active enough on the community site. My team hasn't blogged in a long while. We haven't had any recent contests (although Emily did do that postcard contest that no one entered!). I've...

UMPCs are mobile, and so are its users.  Our team is so excited to have a community that crosses not only the US, but spans the world.  In order to proudly show off the diversity of this great group, we would love for you to send us a postcard...

From time to time I've put surveys on the site to gain insight from all of you. However, the problem has been that I've had to post them in various forums and with the amount of site traffic we get, the polls would get lost in a couple of days and response...

After years of getting kicked around in my fantasy football league, I think this is my year. With me and my UMPC I'll have access to my FF data during the games and more importantly when I'm not around home on Sundays. If your not a fantasy football player...