Re: [CGUYS] M$ vs. iPad, M$ Bows Out
I can hear the head of development for courier at MS...'Apple released what? The iwhat?...dammit!...scrap everything!' On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:05 PM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Microsoft Says 'Courier' Tablet Project Shelved for Now - WSJ.com http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704302304575214692513583532.html?mod=rss_personal_technology I'm not at all surprised. * ** 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/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ vs. iPad, M$ Bows Out
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:05 AM, t.piwowar t...@tjpa.com wrote: Microsoft Says 'Courier' Tablet Project Shelved for Now - WSJ.com http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704302304575214692513583532.html?mod=rss_personal_technology I'm not at all surprised. If you really think that one single product should cause all other development of anything remotely similar to cease, then you probably also believe that competition in the marketplace is a bad thing and should be avoided once a particular benchmark has been achieved by a certain manufacturer of your liking. Now, that most certainly sounds like something out of Redmond to me. Steve * ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ vs. iPad, M$ Bows Out
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/ ** *
Re: [CGUYS] M$ vs. iPad, M$ Bows Out
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/ ** *
