I should have blogged about this two days ago, but when someone sent me a link to this story about Microsoft developing an iPod/PSP killer I assumed they were referring to Origami and ignored it. That's what happens when you take three days off after a horrendous deadline - you slip from the loop so completely that you idiotically mistake news of a pocket PC that features cutting edge multimedia capabilities with... a, erm, handheld entertainment device that may well feature cutting edge multimedia capabilities.
So - just in case you missed it as well - according to Mercury News and others, Microsoft wants to dominate the handheld entertainment sector and has put Xbox evangelist J Allard in charge of the project. The company must be feeling confident at the moment. It has, after all, just announced that the Xbox Live Marketplace has dealt with ten million transactions - "a download rate even faster than the iTunes Music Store," comments Slashdot. But another 'desirable' handheld device? I'm not sure my pockets can cope.
What do you make of it all?
