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MSFT has canceled "Courier" tablet — reportedly

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Post by FluidDjango » Thu, Apr 29, 2010, 8:48 PM UTC

MSFT has canceled "Courier" tablet — reportedly
electronista.com

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Post by ToVaRich » Thu, Apr 29, 2010, 8:50 PM UTC

And commenters are already moaning the loss (of non-existent product) already at http://www.crunchgear.com

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Post by CalmQuiet » Thu, Apr 29, 2010, 8:52 PM UTC

And Gizmo claims that Frank Shaw at MS says:

"At any given time, we're looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating them. It's in our DNA to develop new form factors and natural user interfaces to foster productivity and creativity. The Courier project is an example of this type of effort. It will be evaluated for use in future offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time."

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Post by dman » Thu, Apr 29, 2010, 8:52 PM UTC

Apart from their keyboard and mice this was the first microsoft device I was looking forward to :). While it might not be a mainstream need, a device with great pen based input and support for math symbols would be great for what I do.

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Post by FluidDjango » Thu, Apr 29, 2010, 8:55 PM UTC

dman wrote: post #4

Apart from their keyboard and mice this was the first microsoft device I was looking forward to :). While it might not be a mainstream need, a device with great pen based input and support for math symbols would be great for what I do.

How can you claim that it was to be "a device with great pen based input"...?

I thought it was only at a concept stage?

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Post by pedalpete » Thu, Apr 29, 2010, 9:30 PM UTC

It was only ever a design exercise. I suspect that Microsoft never had plans to develop and sell the courier. However, based on the excitement and demand, I wouldn't be surprised to see one of the hardware vendors pick-up the torch.

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Post by dman » Thu, Apr 29, 2010, 9:32 PM UTC

FluidDjango wrote: post #5

dman wrote: post #4

Apart from their keyboard and mice this was the first microsoft device I was looking forward to :). While it might not be a mainstream need, a device with great pen based input and support for math symbols would be great for what I do.

How can you claim that it was to be "a device with great pen based input"...? I thought it was only at a concept stage?

I didnt say it was, I was merely saying that a pen based device is an unexplored niche, one that I was hoping the courier would fill.