Just a little fun. I know the network of tech pundits I usually hear/read expressed disappointment about courier being scrapped. Who really knows why, I'm sure if it was the iPad, MS would never say..and they really didn't say much when they squashed it so we may never really know. MS's biggest competitor in part has always been itself, a cloud version of office isn't competing with google docs, it's competing with MS office team and they will do whatever they can to keep office off the cloud even if it means it hurts MS in the end. MS needs to grow some and spend some money and get some products out with something resembling speed. The day after the released of the first iPhone after Ballmer removed his foot/ankle/bottom part of his leg from his mouth he should have been putting a team together for the real next version of windows mobile. They seemed to wait years to do so all the while falling way behind. Perhaps courier will show up again at a later date, after all MS was in the tablet business a long time before Apple was..they just couldn't get it to work.
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:14 AM, Chris Dunford <seed...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I can hear the head of development for courier at MS...'Apple released > > what? The iwhat?...dammit!...scrap everything!' > > Really. > > It's too bad, though. According to a couple of articles I've seen, Courier > was one of the few tablet-size boxes that was designed from scratch to be > its own thing--neither an upsized phone nor a > downsized laptop. > > "If you watch the Courier video above, you'll notice that it's an entirely > new class of interface. It doesn't have anything reminiscent of > applications, which are the way phones do it, and it doesn't > have the traditional windowing (lower-case) for programs, which is what > desktops use. It's kinda just one big interface where everything talks to > everything else, where you can do stuff in a natural > way that makes sense." > > http://gizmodo.com/5461767/the-two-wrong-ways-to-make-a-tablet > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
