Our mailbox is buzzing with theories about what is up with the Microsoft Origen site.

Kotakuite David writes:

You know, that looks like an apple tree on that page, like, say, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in Genesis. Genesis being an origin story. Maybe it's a countdown to an announcement of some kind? Though I'd hesitate to speculate on what kind, the Elysium link might tie into a Halo 3 announcement. Just a thought. Oh, there's nothing interesting in the source of the page, it's just a flash movie.

While Alex states:

The only vaguely interesting things the page source tells us is that a) there's a backup for those who don't have Flash installed a nice change from the usual 'please download the Flash player' message and b) that Microsoft seem to be changing the file each week. I tried the logical 'week_5.swf', but to no avail. Oh well.

And narF says:

W3 is not something evil and/or controlled by Microsoft. It's an organisation that try to somehow put some rules in the jungle that is the net so that it can became a better place (like for blind peoples and stuff) hope that this doesn't destroy your fictitious universe full of dreams and evil things...

So, let me get this straight. This is just a regular webpage and clever Microsoft marketing hype? Boy, didn't see that coming.

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