Courier User Interface

I don't think I'd need this, but it is sexy. My favorite thing is that Rolodex thing. It's cool.

I think Paul just creamed himself.

"I'm sure you guys believe unicorns exists if [Apple] renders them." :-D Why do Apple fanbois come to a Windows site? Have they nothing better to do? I don't go to Apple related sites. Oh, well... on to more important things.

I still haven't figured out why I want one of these things. Possibly I could revert to a simple phone plus somebody's tablet in Nov 2010 when my iPhone contract runs out. Or not.

REALLY COOL!!! This the first electronic book I see that seems to be interesting!!! I hope is true...

Whats up with the front page changes?

Apple will beat them to the punch. Also from Giz.... http://gizmodo.com/5370252/apple-tablet-aiming-to-redefine-newspapers-te... If true it looks like Apple is engaging everyone on this.

"It's a vaporware concept." "MSFT has nothing to compare to the upcoming iTablet, or whatever Apple will call it" Wow! Pot. Kettle. " If it was even close to being real you would have seen real hands and a real device." Ya Microsoft must be really bumping up DirectX 11 to produce CGI prototype shots like this: http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/alpineinker/archive/2008/1... But of course, your iTablet nonsense, that even Steve Jobs says nobody wants, will just be a 10" iPhone. Whoop dee sh!t.

Batman isn't even a real super hero, so obviously Wolverine would kick his arse.

"I think a combination of speech and touch will go a long way in the future." Speech recognition is already pretty good in Windows Vista. It has support for both navigation/command as well as dictation. It's only as good as your mic setup though. It works best with a headset.

"there are lots of places tablets do well, like in hospitals or when used to carry something like a clip board but digitally" That's why there's companies like this that offer some amazing vertical solutions: http://www.motioncomputing.com/ Definitely not cheap, but they're a better deal than, say, "COW's".

rr0de "@Mike dates matter to who? " Dates matter when people rewrite history to create a fiction that reinforces their mistaken beliefs. Apple and their fans have a tendency to do this to provide a significance above what they've actually earned. Oh, at the Microsoft Surface table is not a demo. It's a real product that you can order. It may not be targeted at you or be something you're likely to order but that doesn't make it any less real. You could equally say that Microsoft's deskside supercomputing product (Windows HPC Server 2008) is a "demo" because you have no use for it but that doesn't change the fact that it and its predecessors have been used in medical research, oil and gas exploration and other advanced fields for years now.

@RunTimeError: "I'll believe it when I see it." http://www.killermovies.com/forums/attachment.php?s=&postid=4654097

I think Paul knows this is for real.. but is under NDA. I doubt he'd post something like this if it wasn't true. Right?

@BladRnr Just to understand your logic, I'd like to write up the steps your brain took. 1. You read Paul's report saying "what is apparently" a new "design" and how the Courier "would" work. Obviously indicating that it is a plan or design. 2. You then looked at the video which is a mock-up of a designed product. 3. You then proceed to say that it's rubbish because it is only a design - unlike iPhone/iPod Touch, which you can buy. You do know you're a moron right? I mean, aside from the fact that you posted 14 minutes after Paul wrote up the news (clearly meaning you troll his website), you are bashing a product for being in the process of being created (if it is a legitimate Microsoft product). Do me a favor, take off the headphones which have the looped CD saying "Apple is good, Steve Jobs is the man, Apple is good, Steve Jobs is sexy" and actually open your eyes and your ears.. I'm particularly fond of how you are able to change the subject though - iPhone's are not tablet PCs. They are multi-touch handheld devices/phones. If you want to get really picky - iPhones are just glorified Windows CE devices - OMG YOU ADDED THE ABILITY TO TOUCH IT WITH MORE THAN ONE FINGER! IT'S COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! lol. Microsoft touchscreen phones/tablets PREDATE every Apple offering. Cheers, thanks for coming. @Logjamming No need to be jumpy and defensive. No-one belittled Apples rumored device. You remind me of a friend, Apple fanboi, who almost started crying during a discussion about the pro's and con's of PC vs Mac. He took every comment to be an attack on him personally. That's it, isn't it? That's the heart of this issue. You see Apple, Mac, iPhones, etc, as part of your identity. Apple is cool and therefore you are cool. If something challenges that - then your identity is challenged. How very very sad. @rr0de74 That article references another article as it's source, which is mostly about the Kindle 2. So, ironically, people claiming that microsoft is FUDing Apples (imaginary) tablet - it seems as though Apple was FUDing the Kindle 2 release..lols @Waethorn I think my favorite part of that article was this: "The Codex is a prototype-- and a rather flaky, cobbled-together one at that. But it uses off-the-shelf devices, and there's nothing magical about the software. So the crass answer is that you can have one now if you are willing to spend some dollars, build yourself a custom binder, and write a little bit of code." Simple. Honest. It doesn't have any of the balony about it being the BEST product in the world. You would never hear Apple's PR machine say anything like that. Mostly because of the sentence "Write a little bit of code". Apple doesn't want anyone to think that we need to know anything about anything. JUST ACCEPT THE DAMN FLASHY SHINY BOX AS IS! CONFIGURATION? WHAT DO YOU NEED TO CHANGE? YOU'RE WRONG! @rr0de74 I doubt you will be seeing an Apple version within a year. It took two versions of the iPhone for it to record video and three OS versions for it to send MMS. This is clearly not the brain-trust company. @mikegalos You beat me to the punch on so many things. So annoying sometimes! @tayme It became a flame war because Apple fans turn brand loyalty into an excuse for trusting in their own individual superiority. Here's the irony - even though this is a Windows site, Paul openly praises the iPhone and many non-microsoft products. He consistently knocks the crappy MS things and praises the good MS things. As I've said a thousand times, as I sit here looking at my iPhone on my desk and surrounded by 2x 22" monitors on my PC, support products NOT companies. If you support products you are always ready to adopt the best - if you support companies (listen up Apple fanboys) you are never able to see past the company PR BS. @all This was my longest ever post. Lol.

If Microsoft builds this thing, I'll buy it.

Nevermind.... The model 2+ came out in January, and they closed up in April. Backlit keyboards on slider devices like this are always welcome. I sure wish the PS3 controller keypad was backlit.

Tayme, the 2nd and 3rd posts used a not yet released product to refute another not yet released product. Hilarity ensues.

SempSempSemp "@mikegalos You beat me to the punch on so many things. So annoying sometimes!" Well, occasionally I have a life so that'll give you time to get in here before me.

@rr0de74 You do understand why Microsoft "supporters"/users (whatever you want to call them) love to bring up any shortfall on Apple products, don't you? That's because they go from 0 to crazy in one sentence. It's almost hilarious to watch. As for the iTablet - you might be right but I severely doubt it. Unless this is Microsoft and Apple playing that Olympic cycling game where they both stall to see who bolts first. Who knows. I really really doubt it. @truffoo Microsoft releases a lot of hardware. The Surface PC being of particular note. You're right, in a lot of ways comparing Apple and MS is ridiculous. Microsoft allows a large variety of choice - supporting thousands of pieces of hardware and peripherals. Apple demands conformity. "I'm a mac..and I'm the exact same as every other mac.." ( "Snow Leopard - because the metaphor of a cat in the freezing cold is perfect for our software that breaks at every turn" ) @Mike Please don't. I scroll to the green head for reliable information on most of these pages.

@sempSempSemp some Apple and MS fans go from 0 to crazy, it cant be helped. There are plenty of example of both on this site. The Apple tablet is easier to believe especially when you read the more credible rumors. The recent one I read before this one about them talking to publishers, was only a few days ago. It said a 10inch'ish device, with the iTouch/iPhone OS, focused on reading, two versions both with wifi, one with 3g, with a Jan-Feb announcement, and shipping mid 2010. That rumor is believable because that is just a bigger iTouch/iPhone that can take on the Kindle in the area of digital books. The whole infrastructure is already in place, itunes, app store, apps, 3g partner, etc. Add on today's rumor that they are engaging many book, magazine and paper publishers and it even makes even more sense. Its just a larger form factor iTouch/iPhone.

There are a couple questions left that haven't been discussed yet: Who is the target market? Sure it looks cool to anybody that watches the demo, but who really needs this? (That's not meant as a negative rhetorical question. I'm genuinely asking.) And what kind of price do people expect to pay for this? (Microsoft hasn't stated anything product-wise on this so I thought I'd get a public concensus instead)

"Whats up with the front page changes?" Although it's off topic, my question's the same as Ocean's. :\

OK it's a sweet animated demo... but why two screens? Sure, you get a smaller footprint (when closed) but everything in that demo could be achieved on one larger screen ... which could benefit other apps ... like video, browser etc.

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