I’ve written about Courier a couple times before. Alas, this appears this may be the last time I do!
Courier was a pretty amazing concept tablet coming out of Microsoft. Gizmodo reports today that the Redmond folk have decided to cancel the project altogether. This is kind of disappointing for a few reasons. As I’ve mentioned before, the interface being developed was really slick, and by slick I mean intuitive, clean and useful. I think what made Courier so interesting is that it was a concept project that seemed almost… un-Microsoft. The organic nature of the hardware and the OS/software combination was immensely cool. If you get a chance, watch the concept videos. It’ll drop your jaw.
Sigh! I still think the iPad is a fantastic little device, but Courier seemed to be focused on being an actual tablet. Not just a display board with multi-touch. Who knows, perhaps Microsoft will resurrect this at some stage!