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Microsoft confirms, kills Courier in one fell swoop -- Engadget Android coverage by humans AOL MAIL Engadget Classic Mobile HD ENGADGET U.S. ESPAGOL ???? ???? ??? ???? DEUTCHLAND LOG IN REGISTER LOGOUT a_Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft... Email address: Password: Username: Forgot your password? *Required Fields *EMAIL *USERNAME *PASSWORD Please note: If you're a current Engadget commenter, you do not need to re-register. Simply login and you will be prompted to select a username. HP buys Palm Engadget Show Dell Leaks Kin One and Two iPhone OS 4 Apple iPad News Hubs Galleries Videos Podcasts The Recap Authors FOLLOW US ON TWITTER SUBSCRIBE ABOUT / FAQ TIP US Handhelds, Microsoft confirms, kills Courier in one fell swoop By Joshua Topolsky Well this is depressing. Word has just gone fluttering out of Redmond that work on the Courier project -- a heretofore rumored dual-screen tablet which rightfully set the tech world ablaze -- has been spun down by the company. Here's the official line from Frank Shaw, Microsoft's VP of corporate communications: At any given time, across any of our business groups, there are new ideas being investigated, tested, and incubated. It's in Microsoft's DNA to continually develop and incubate new technologies to foster productivity and creativity. The "Courier" project is an example of this type of effort and its technologies will be evaluated for use in future Microsoft offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time. All very sad, of course. So how did we get here? And was this thing ever really real to begin with? After all, it's hard to kill something that never lived. Well here's the deal, according to a source familiar with the situation: the Courier did indeed start life as a potential new product category for the company, one which was being incubated internally with very real plans for a marketable device. It seems, however, that things just didn't manage to take shape, and word was handed down very recently that the incubation period had reached its conc... |
