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Microsoft Courier's Devolution [Microsoft]
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<blockquote data-quote="Geek" data-source="post: 2108420" data-attributes="member: 246624"><p><a href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/courierfreshhher.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_courierfreshhher.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>These <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures-and-de/" target="_blank">fresh images and details</a> of Microsoft's Courier paint a slightly different device than the one <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet" target="_blank">uncovered a few months ago</a>—tinier, perhaps less genre-busting, and a more direct iPad fighter.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/courerhands.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_courerhands.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a>This take is built on the same mobile OS core as Windows Phone 7 and Zune HD, powered by <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5428016/tegra-2-coming-in-january-nvidia-promises-netbooks-smartphones-and-smartbooks-galore" target="_blank">Nvidia's Tegra 2 hardware</a>. It's supposedly thinner than an inch, under a pound, and about the size of a 5x7 photo when closed.</p><p></p><p>As you can see, the device seems even smaller, the interface, though still pen-based, seems less whizzy based on these stills than the wildly complex and sophisticated (or maybe <em>just</em> complex) <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5380626/courier-user-interface-in-depth/gallery/" target="_blank">interface shown earlier</a>:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Is Courier progressing or regressing? It's hard to tell—we're not sure where in Courier's development these concepts are from vs. our initial reportage. But if they are newer, a few things stand out.</p><p></p><p>• Courier's grown to be more realstic and less <em>different</em>, which is not uncommon for mind-bogglingly radical-seeming products. (Our mind was blown by the original interface, anyway, for better or worse.)</p><p></p><p>• Shifting from using Windows 7 as its core as <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4103" target="_blank">Mary Jo Foley first reported</a> to Windows CE6 and mobile guts puts it more squarely against the iPad, using <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5461767/the-two-wrong-ways-to-make-a-tablet" target="_blank">a similar philosophical approach of scaling up</a> to a tablet, vs. scaling down as Microsoft's always done before. (Which makes sense, given that this is <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4011" target="_blank">supposedly J. Allard's project</a>—he'd want to use E&D's own goods to power his tablet.) Also, mobile guts are cheaper than low-power laptop guts.</p><p></p><p>• This <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5366002/courier-isnt-the-only-secret-microsoft-tablet" target="_blank">could be one of the several prototype</a> tablets J. Allard's got—which would explain why there's versions that seem more like full Windows 7 vs. Windows Phone 7.</p><p></p><p>• Engadget pegs the launch date later this year, though we've heard separately that Courier won't show up anytime in 2010.</p><p></p><p>• We're still pretty excited.</p><p></p><p>[<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures-and-de/" target="_blank">Engadget</a>]</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1" target="_blank"><img src="http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a><img src="http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /><a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:H0mrP-F8Qgo" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:yIl2AUoC8zA" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:D7DqB2pKExk" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:D7DqB2pKExk" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a> <a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:V_sGLiPBpWU" target="_blank"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:V_sGLiPBpWU" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></a></p><p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/XsHGG6aya7I" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Geek, post: 2108420, member: 246624"] [URL="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/courierfreshhher.jpg"][IMG]http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_courierfreshhher.jpg[/IMG][/URL]These [URL="http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures-and-de/"]fresh images and details[/URL] of Microsoft's Courier paint a slightly different device than the one [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5365299/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet"]uncovered a few months ago[/URL]—tinier, perhaps less genre-busting, and a more direct iPad fighter. [URL="http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/courerhands.jpg"][IMG]http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2010/03/500x_courerhands.jpg[/IMG][/URL]This take is built on the same mobile OS core as Windows Phone 7 and Zune HD, powered by [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5428016/tegra-2-coming-in-january-nvidia-promises-netbooks-smartphones-and-smartbooks-galore"]Nvidia's Tegra 2 hardware[/URL]. It's supposedly thinner than an inch, under a pound, and about the size of a 5x7 photo when closed. As you can see, the device seems even smaller, the interface, though still pen-based, seems less whizzy based on these stills than the wildly complex and sophisticated (or maybe [I]just[/I] complex) [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5380626/courier-user-interface-in-depth/gallery/"]interface shown earlier[/URL]: Is Courier progressing or regressing? It's hard to tell—we're not sure where in Courier's development these concepts are from vs. our initial reportage. But if they are newer, a few things stand out. • Courier's grown to be more realstic and less [I]different[/I], which is not uncommon for mind-bogglingly radical-seeming products. (Our mind was blown by the original interface, anyway, for better or worse.) • Shifting from using Windows 7 as its core as [URL="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4103"]Mary Jo Foley first reported[/URL] to Windows CE6 and mobile guts puts it more squarely against the iPad, using [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5461767/the-two-wrong-ways-to-make-a-tablet"]a similar philosophical approach of scaling up[/URL] to a tablet, vs. scaling down as Microsoft's always done before. (Which makes sense, given that this is [URL="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4011"]supposedly J. Allard's project[/URL]—he'd want to use E&D's own goods to power his tablet.) Also, mobile guts are cheaper than low-power laptop guts. • This [URL="http://gizmodo.com/5366002/courier-isnt-the-only-secret-microsoft-tablet"]could be one of the several prototype[/URL] tablets J. Allard's got—which would explain why there's versions that seem more like full Windows 7 vs. Windows Phone 7. • Engadget pegs the launch date later this year, though we've heard separately that Courier won't show up anytime in 2010. • We're still pretty excited. [[URL="http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures-and-de/"]Engadget[/URL]] [URL="http://ads.pheedo.com/click.phdo?p=1"][IMG]http://ads.pheedo.com/img.phdo?p=1[/IMG][/URL][IMG]http://a.rfihub.com/eus.gif?eui=2226[/IMG][URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:H0mrP-F8Qgo"][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo[/IMG][/URL] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:yIl2AUoC8zA"][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA[/IMG][/URL] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:D7DqB2pKExk"][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:D7DqB2pKExk[/IMG][/URL] [URL="http://feeds.gawker.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?a=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:V_sGLiPBpWU"][IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/gizmodo/full?i=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:V_sGLiPBpWU[/IMG][/URL] [IMG]http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~4/XsHGG6aya7I[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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