What a long strange trip it has been watching the Origami unfold into the UltraMobile PC. A new era is upon and the developer community has the opportunity to seize the day and to seize the market.  Think about this, a small form factor touch enabled computer that’s inexpensive, take it with you and go anywhere philosophy – it’s a lifestyle thing. I’ll wager that 12-18 months from now what defines this market are the applications that are tuned to the device. Don’t just port them -- fine tune them.

We’re here to help with a new addition to our dev center around the UMPC  http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobilepc/umpc, there’s plenty more to come too:

• We had our friends at 3Leaf build a UMPC Display Emulator that’s in beta right now, it will allow you to run your applications in a constrained UMPC like UI so you can get a feel for how they work without having a device. Check out the beta here.
• We will release the source code for Sudoku along with a white paper that Steven wrote to accompany his code.  This guy rocks man, incredible code, a great game, a super whitepaper wow, I wish we could clone him J 
• We’ll also be shipping more documents and whitepapers to help you with building cool touch enabled application.

Let us know what your needs are, contact us at UMPCISV@Microsoft.com

While you’re at it check out this recent post on gottabemobile.com from Dennis. Congratulations on the new site Dennis and Rob, great work. Then listen to what Lora has to say on what is new – an I mean listen…

/frank

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