http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/ Engadget Comments for New Microsoft Courier video details tablet interface, exciting life of a shoe designer (Update: Windows 7 underneath, might run Microsoft hardware) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
Explain to me how it's better. If you can provide factual reasons why it's better, I'll buy an iPhone now and throw my G1 away. ]]>Sep 29th 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
Go crawl back into your Apple crate. MS or not, anyone trying to create something new and interesting should be commended. This just raises the stakes in the electronics game and we benefit. But I guess your iBrain can't seem to comprehend that, can it?]]>Sep 29th 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
"Android is about as open source as the iphone... it's a joke. Google is just as much a parent figure to Android as Apple is to the iphone."

"So are they going to charge a 30 dollar a month data charge AND a 10 dollar navigation charge?"

"BGR is a crap site that just covers blackberries, verizon and At&t. They have very little objectivity in their reporting or reviews."

"Paul A. Chapel.

Eat $hit you liberal puke"]]>Sep 29th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
So your 8 year rumored tablet will destroy this design concept?

I mean, at least Microsoft has a track record in tablets which makes this a little more credible. Apple on the other hand has said nothing about a tablet and has repeatedly denied interest in making one. That's not much to be as confident as you are.]]>Sep 29th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
Nah... compared to that, Apple Tablet will be more like Comic Sans.]]>Sep 29th 2009 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
Yeah, it's immature of me, but so is sitting on here all day (everyday) and commenting on every single post like that Mark character or the rest of you can who read each and every single post, painstakingly deciding whether or not to rate + or -. ]]>Sep 29th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 8:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 11:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
On the contrary, those "amazing" parties should be commended...


/sarcasm haha]]>Sep 29th 2009 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/now all they need to do is support some kind of a cause and they'll be the best thing since...
oh wait, i guess bill and melinda gates foundation covers that.]]>Sep 29th 2009 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Now just make it a reality and I'll bite..]]>Sep 29th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 11:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 11:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
The video appears to me to be at least a couple years old because of that laptop running XP.]]>Sep 29th 2009 11:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
It would also be a great business tool. I work in the industrial automation field and manage a lot of capital improvement projects at various customers. This device would be great for going to a initial meeting and jotting down what the customer is looking for and then expanding on it through a seemingly endless string of follow-up meetings as the project takes shape until its final approval and kick-off meeting, which half the time ends in additional items being tacked on and a new string of meetings spread out over a year+ time frame before the project even starts and then interfacing with four or five other contractors on scheduling and so on. I would love to have this item for work.

But that is the most significant point, it would be for work, or for school, or for any number of tasks that I would never think of. The one thing that would separate it from a Apple tablet is that the fruity flavored one would almost assuredly be an entertainment / media centered device for casual use. While the Courier market could be huge in its own right, I find it hard to believe it would come anywhere near the entertainment focused market would be.

I personally don't care if Apple ever releases a tablet, but I do wish that someone would release a MID-sized tablet that boots quickly, supports any media formats you through at it, have Wifi (N speeds) and bluetooth, touchscreen in a high resolution, SD memory card support and be able to run:

1. Streaming apps like Netflix, Amazon VOD, Hulu, and other web based video services.
2. Internet Radio, Rhapsody, podcasts and other music services.
3. Full web browser with flash and silverlight support.
3. Integrated applications for popular content like Facebook, flickr, myspace, youtube type stuff
4. support for email clients like gmail, outlook, hotmail etc.
5. support for quick and easy installs of applications like games (not Crysis level games just PSP or iPhone type games)

Wrap it all up in a Media Center type interface as the main desktop and drop the traditional windows start menu and UI.

]]>Sep 29th 2009 12:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
I'd love to be able to read this like a book. so the comic book file support would be great as well. But overall, a nice multimedia system like you propose would be fantastic]]>Sep 29th 2009 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 7:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
I guess you've yet to finish grammar school? ]]>Sep 29th 2009 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 12:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
*hides in corner*]]>Sep 29th 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 1:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
ULTRA KILL!!!

you win.]]>Sep 29th 2009 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
On the other hand it is too bulky with the multiple screens to be a lay on the couch and use kind of casual device, pretty much the same two plains to keep positioned problem that makes laptops suck for lounging around. It might make a great e-reader with full color magazines being displayed just like their newsstand counterparts. Try lounging around with a three ring binder and writing, drawing, and just holding it while you do so and you will see its a pain to do. This would be a lay it down on a table type device with mostly pen input. ]]>Sep 29th 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Now, If they threw in a nice calculator, this would be awesome for math class, and almost perfect companion for school.

Anyways, I think that demographic alone is a huge number.]]>Sep 29th 2009 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 11:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
But back to the topic at hand, I don't think that using it will pose much of an issue. The biggest problem with writing in a binder while sitting is that the binder is too bulky (not exactly what I want to say, but I can't think of how else to phrase it). For example, try turning a binder at a 90 degree angle from how you normally use it, and it become MUCH easier to use.

But either way, diffrern't strokes and all that jazz.]]>Sep 29th 2009 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
One-note was great software for annotating anything you could run on tablet xp; it was just somewhat of a pain to set u your tablet to be completely useful. If Microsoft has been actually working on improving one-note and other tablet software for the past 5 years, this might actually be a useful device.

I have a Fujitsu Tablet (slate not notebook) available at work, which was arguably one of the best and most expensive tablets ever. It stayed in my closet, because it was not really easy to use. Hopefully this version will be better.]]>Sep 29th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
It would also be a great business tool. I work in the industrial automation field and manage a lot of capital improvement projects at various customers. This device would be great for going to a initial meeting and jotting down what the customer is looking for and then expanding on it through a seemingly endless string of follow-up meetings as the project takes shape until its final approval and kick-off meeting, which half the time ends in additional items being tacked on and a new string of meetings spread out over a year+ time frame before the project even starts and then interfacing with four or five other contractors on scheduling and so on. I would love to have this item for work.

But that is the most significant point, it would be for work, or for school, or for any number of tasks that I would never think of. The one thing that would separate it from a Apple tablet is that the fruity flavored one would almost assuredly be an entertainment / media centered device for casual use. While the Courier market could be huge in its own right, I find it hard to believe it would come anywhere near the entertainment focused market would be.

I personally don't care if Apple ever releases a tablet, but I do wish that someone would release a MID-sized tablet that boots quickly, supports any media formats you through at it, have Wifi (N speeds) and bluetooth, touchscreen in a high resolution, SD memory card support and be able to run:

1. Streaming apps like Netflix, Amazon VOD, Hulu, and other web based video services.
2. Internet Radio, Rhapsody, podcasts and other music services.
3. Full web browser with flash and silverlight support.
3. Integrated applications for popular content like Facebook, flickr, myspace, youtube type stuff
4. support for email clients like gmail, outlook, hotmail etc.
5. support for quick and easy installs of applications like games (not Crysis level games just PSP or iPhone type games)

Wrap it all up in a Media Center type interface as the main desktop and drop the traditional windows start menu and UI.
]]>Sep 29th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 1:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
So, the point that I'm trying to make is that people already carry around their media player, in their phone or pmp, and carrying around a media tablet with it is kind of redundant and silly, where as a work/school tablet would make sense because it doesn't overlap function.

]]>Sep 29th 2009 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
seriously though, I don't mind if this thing doesn't have natove Windows compatibility, as long as it gets decent app support. Something like this without a good Photoshop equivalent would be a sin.

Any word yet on whether this is multitouch resistive or capacitive with a pressure sensitive stylus?]]>Sep 29th 2009 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 1:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/
It's a good thing the other 3 comments I tried didn't submit, as the update would have negated them :0]]>Sep 29th 2009 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Sep 29th 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/29/new-microsoft-courier-video-details-tablet-interface-exciting-l/Oct 6th 2009 10:33PM