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Microsoft’s J Allard Could be Leaving Over Courier Cancellation

Evan Selleck, May 21st 2010 Discuss [0]

There's no doubt in our mind that when Microsoft pulled the plug on the Courier, a lot of people got upset. We know that's probably the case because we're definitely in that pool. It was definitely one of the most attractive and interesting Microsoft concepts to come out in years, but, as Fate would have it, it's just not going to happen. But, you know who was more angry than anyone else? J Allard. Read The Full Story

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Apple, iPad & why the stylus isn’t dead

Chris Davies, May 8th 2010 Discuss [21]

“It’s like we said on the iPad, if you see a stylus, they blew it.” The audience sniggered. There was no small sense that Steve Jobs had carefully prepared that line earlier and had it waiting; that like the repetitious declarations of the iPad as “miraculous” by every person to take the stage at its launch, this snub at Microsoft’s expense had similarly been rehearsed, a barbed nugget guaranteed to set the gathered journalists, bloggers and Mac-faithful a-titter. A stylus is, after all, old-school; a flawed halfway house before the advent of the iPhone and iPad. Jobs’ Apple can’t see a reason for one, and they reckon you should think so too. And yet, as input methods go, the stylus remains one of the most misunderstood.

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Courier is dead, long live Courier?

Chris Davies, Apr 30th 2010 Discuss [1]

Ah, Courier, we hardly knew you. “We have no plans” Microsoft say “to build such a device at this time.” Now, perhaps it’s my tablet-addled, ever-hopeful mind, but that doesn’t sound quite the same thing as “you won’t see a Courier-style device.” In fact, you could easily interpret it as a carefully worded workaround: we’re not going to build a Microsoft Courier, the company says, but other firms might. After all, they’ve already mention that “its technologies will be evaluated for use in future Microsoft offerings.”

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Microsoft Courier Not Heading Into Production

Evan Selleck, Apr 29th 2010 Discuss [4]

Here's some remarkably bad news. It seems that the Microsoft Courier, the dual-screen digital journal with Tegra 2 inside, has been scrapped. According to the report from The Wall Street Journal, it seems that Microsoft executives informed the internal team working on the Courier that the project was no longer supported by Microsoft, and that it's been removed from future production. Of course, Microsoft had never officially come forward and publicly announced the Courier, but we know it existed. Read The Full Story