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Microsoft scraps plan for Courier tablet
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article published on 30 April, 2010
Gizmodo, the site that first uncovered Microsof'ts plans to release a "digital journal" dubbed the Courier, is reporting this week that the company has scrapped those plans.
Execs were told by CEO Steve Ballmer that the tablet would no longer be supported, which seems reasonable given that the Courier was never publicly acknowledged as an upcoming device.
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30. April 2010 @ 13:19 |
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now that is a tablet I would have used. sorry hear it is no longer planed.
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voyager
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30. April 2010 @ 16:54 |
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My GOD"! that was kool
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30. April 2010 @ 21:03 |
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Seriously?? I was really looking forward to purchasing this. Bites man.
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leglessoz
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30. April 2010 @ 21:21 |
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Yeah typical. I have no interest in an iPad but would have considered the Courier. I don't know why they say they aren't interested in competing with similar technologies. They build keyboards, they make mouses and lots of other competing technologies.
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Paula_X
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30. April 2010 @ 21:33 |
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There will be other fully open options on the market soon .. open and cheaper.
don't understand.. both are M$ customers.. Them who can't think (brain dead) and them who don't think (woolly and in a crowd)
You sad people.. didn't you ever work out that IF this thing had ever hit the market it would have run something similar to "windows mobile" drm riddled restricted crap.. exactly cloned in "separate you from your cash" philosophy as any drm riddled lump of crapple junk??
They have seen the ipad (still think that's a female hygiene product btw) slump off rapidly after even the fanboys realised it's a turkey they bought (a turkey is for life.. an apple turkey is anyway) and thought maybe .. just maybe releasing a "competing" restricted heap of crap isn't exactly a great idea?
Buy a netbook morons.. for as little as £99.. get a proper mini pc for your money with a bloody keyboard and full function instead of an overblown phone.
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30. April 2010 @ 22:11 |
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MS got cold feet.
They were afraid of losing to Apple.
Innovation should be made of sterner stuff.
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30. April 2010 @ 22:49 |
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Originally posted by Paula_X:
There will be other fully open options on the market soon .. open and cheaper.
don't understand.. both are M$ customers.. Them who can't think (brain dead) and them who don't think (woolly and in a crowd)
You sad people.. didn't you ever work out that IF this thing had ever hit the market it would have run something similar to "windows mobile" drm riddled restricted crap.. exactly cloned in "separate you from your cash" philosophy as any drm riddled lump of crapple junk??
They have seen the ipad (still think that's a female hygiene product btw) slump off rapidly after even the fanboys realised it's a turkey they bought (a turkey is for life.. an apple turkey is anyway) and thought maybe .. just maybe releasing a "competing" restricted heap of crap isn't exactly a great idea?
Buy a netbook morons.. for as little as £99.. get a proper mini pc for your money with a bloody keyboard and full function instead of an overblown phone.
We don't want an underpowered netbook though. We want a Tablet machine with an innovative OS and feel. A two touch screen tablet that was an ACTUAL notebook would have been pretty neat. Also, touch screens, WE WANT TOUCH, hence why we desire a tablet. You're in the wrong topic bub. And It would have been on mobile OS7. A VAST improvement. And that os would only be the back runner. The UI would have been VERY different. The same way HTC has taken windows 6.5 and made it their own. Sure it runs windows, but the UI vastly improves it to the point where you would not think it was windows mobile.
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30. April 2010 @ 23:10 |
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yup..too typical..the shytti products like the ipad gets released while the good ones get scrapped..figueres >_>
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1. May 2010 @ 01:19 |
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Originally posted by Josipher:
yup..too typical..the shytti products like the ipad gets released while the good ones get scrapped..figueres >_>
I think they are working on a iPad Killer just like iPhone got kill by Android.
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 1. May 2010 @ 01:30
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1. May 2010 @ 10:56 |
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OMG.... The courrier was great solution for ALOT of people...
Ipad is nothing like it... i know the price would probably turn people off on the start but.... WHATEVER!!!!! im so pist off right now! i dont only hate crApple now i hate MS for shut down this great idea.... i hope some other company pick up and finish it... Maybe Hp now that they got webOS...
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voyager
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1. May 2010 @ 12:06 |
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The android kill the Iphone! serious?
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1. May 2010 @ 12:06 |
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Originally posted by Mrguss:
Originally posted by Josipher:
yup..too typical..the shytti products like the ipad gets released while the good ones get scrapped..figueres >_>
I think they are working on a iPad Killer just like iPhone got kill by Android.
HAHA u are a joke... Android has dominated, but apple did a good job brain washing. Or maybe all the other companys are just F... crazy for choosing Android as their OS... What open source and pornn? Cant beat that! YES STEVE... WE WHANT PORN!
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1. May 2010 @ 14:38 |
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I would much rather invest in this, I don't think I'd ever buy an Ipad because I don't have any uses for it.
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