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The new mini personal computer from Microsoft, which of late has the concept name “origami”, was shown off at a technology trade show inside Germany at the beginning of March. The end-invention name given that the computer has not yet been finalized, as “origami” is only a nickname which has been used by engineers at some point of its development. The new computer is planned to hit the shelves in April, and is expected to rival apple Mac’s IPod amongst other things.

The new computer is a hand held PC in the similar modify of Sony’s P2P games console. The hand wedged personal computer is however as powerful for the reason that a standard desktop PC, with a whopping 60 gig hard fight. It has an 18cm touch-screen, also is a mere 1.5cm thick in addition to weighs in at around 1 Kg. Operating with a full version of windows XP, this little computer is intended to have all the media capabilities of a home PC: therefore this new gadget will be able to run your favorite media actor for music, games; as anyways as movies.

The new hand held PC also has additional connection capabilities for keyboards, digital cameras, and mobile phones; leading to speculation about how long before the mini PC as well as Skype ( http://www.skype.com ) begin to rival mobile phones too. The big question here being; will the large and powerful telephone companies like Sony Ericsson ( http://www.sonyericsson.com ) give Microsoft the complimentary rein to enter their marketplace. With Microsoft being such a major conglomerate surely the big phone companies will do everything inside their capability to keep their market Microsoft free.

With this brand new ultra high tech piece of machinery Microsoft are in addition group to make a serious task to the PC hardware market. This brilliant strategy by Microsoft grants them to hit three of the world’s biggest markets (PCs, mobile phones and MP3 players) in one came down swoop.

Can somebody stop Microsoft? The only company to be seen making any challenge to the Microsoft empire at the segment is search engine giant Google – will we become a world dominated by two global Über-companies the future – we’ll just submit to to wait and see.