http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/ Engadget Comments for Switched On: Courier courts the creative 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/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 30th 2010 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 30th 2010 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Me too. It's almost as if MS doesn't want our money.]]>Mar 30th 2010 5:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
Just think, in the future we wouldn't even have to carry textbooks around with us because devices like this would store all the pertinent information for us. We could just flip on demand to a page that we need, extract information, switch to the notes application and piece together our research notes. I like the seamless image integration and organization tools available through this thing.

I'm not even in the market for one of these devices and yet, I really want one.]]>Mar 30th 2010 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 30th 2010 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Imagine comic books on this thing. My only change would be to make the bezel between screens smaller.]]>Mar 30th 2010 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
I don't. They still owe me those surface table machines that were going to revolutionize computing 5 years ago...]]>Mar 30th 2010 5:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
Im ok with the bezel on something like this because you really do have to be able to hold in from every orientation. you need that ugly black rim or youre going to be thumbing screen real estate. ]]>Mar 30th 2010 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
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The courier, on the other hand, is clearly aimed at the mass market. It's a combination of several MS technologies that are already quite successful. MS has among the best handwriting recognition in then consumer space. They have tablet-driven UIs (like InkSeine), and they've got the financial muscle to pull something like this off. It's just a device built around OneNote with purpose-built hardware. I for one couldn't be more thrilled, as a OneNote user and InkSeine user, it's clear where this gets its design from.

You don't think they could pull it off? Then you've become jaded my friend. Apple and Google don't have a monopoly on creativity.]]>Mar 30th 2010 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 30th 2010 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
Most people can move their thumbs. The idea that big bezel is needed for thumbs was thought by people with thumbs for brains.

]]>Mar 30th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 30th 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
I don't want this, or the ipad. ]]>Mar 30th 2010 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
I am so over being excited for Microsoft products. It seems to me that when you're in love with a Microsoft product, that there is a lot of waiting involved. I've been waiting for Windows Mobile 7 for God knows how long. I'm still waiting for Natal. I waited for Vista for like five years.

I'm sorry, but this time, I'm not waiting anymore. I'm not playing Microsoft's stupid game. I'll be buying an iPad this Saturday. If Microsoft really wants to start impressing people, they need to shelve the concept videos and just drop the product out of the blue or maybe 2 to 3 months before it's actually set to come out.]]>Mar 30th 2010 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
Lol - Palo Alto, start your copiers ;)]]>Mar 30th 2010 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
What is for certain is that April 3rd, Apple will ship a magical and revolutionary device at an exceptional price, and Microsoft will tumble a few days closer to the day Apple passes them in market cap.]]>Mar 30th 2010 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
I REALLY WANT THIS!

Microsoft don't listen to engadget. Please keep the screen at the same size or bigger but less than 11 inches. Market this as a product for students too to stop carrying a shitload of books and notebooks. Market efficiency and productivity for students to be able to take notes in class and on annotate pdf books and do papers on it with handwriting recognition as well as graphic designers to get more work done on the go. Also market it as a product for play not just work! Show videos and music and multitasking and web browsing and games etc... Also, PLEASE shove a Wacom digitizer on this thing. = WIN
Once people get tired of the silliness of typing only with finger input on a screen like the iPad they will be begging for Pen support which will give you guys a huge advantage. Not to mention the folding screen is huge win for people who want a protected display and portability. We have long been waiting for a product like this because nobody wants to carry around a huge $2,000 tablet P.C just to take handwritten notes. Okay maybe we the techies will but the masses won't.]]>Mar 30th 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
An ARM Cortex A9 with a powervr sgx GPU wouldn't hurt either :)]]>Mar 30th 2010 6:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/be ready to wait. Forever. While I do agree that the mockups and videos are great- their vision is so incredibly complicated. Judt to code the backbone of that OS will take a large amount of genius. This release is just to stave off those on the fence of buying an ipad. M$ would like to keep as many people as possible from enjoying the ipad and becomming hooked. ]]>Mar 30th 2010 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/what did you mean with
it got to have it.
]]>Mar 30th 2010 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
http://community.research.microsoft.com/blogs/alpineinker/archive/2010/03/17/postcard-from-the-future.aspx]]>Mar 30th 2010 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/thumb-thumbs!]]>Mar 30th 2010 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
so you can....what? design shoes?]]>Mar 30th 2010 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
I bet I want this more than you do.

Microsoft. Do the right thing. RELEASE THIS YEAR!!!!! ]]>Mar 30th 2010 7:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 30th 2010 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/You aren't creative are you?]]>Mar 30th 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/My question, does the Courier have multitasking?]]>Mar 30th 2010 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 30th 2010 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
+9000]]>Mar 30th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 30th 2010 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
MS needs to bring this out now to hit the fruit company where it hurts. I can see this being implemented in the business realm.]]>Mar 30th 2010 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
It is reported to use the Tegra 2, so it will have the A9]]>Mar 30th 2010 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
Not just that, Imagine gaming! I know that may sound a little strange for this form factor, but think about the DS. Also, imagine if Microsoft also enabled Xbox LIVE!]]>Mar 30th 2010 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/they're used on the news like (cnn) ac 360???]]>Mar 30th 2010 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 30th 2010 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
It's better than getting Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and handwriting is more natural as it is the way we have written since the dawn of time. I don't know about you but I don't want to be lugging a keyboard around but I also enjoy tactile feed back when typing. Not to mention that tapping your fingers against a flat hard surface repeatedly has to be bad for your finger joints.]]>Mar 30th 2010 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 30th 2010 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
That's not a great option for a regular computer with a nice, efficient keyboard. But voice commands work great on a Droid. And, I suspect, would be a great input option on a Courier, too.]]>Mar 30th 2010 10:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/I am just not convinced that handwriting recognition is ready for primetime. It can be a very frustrating experience for people like me who think in English but write in Mandarin (as my wife describes my handwriting). I am old enough to remember and use the Newton, and it was frustrating.

Regardless of Microsoft's advances in this area, it will still take a monster mobile processor to do that kind of recognition. Color me skeptical. But as a Mac guy and a creative person, I would LOVE to see this kind of device hit the street. Maybe it will force Apple and others to start breaking the computing mold a bit more for future products.]]>Mar 30th 2010 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/this.magical;]]>Mar 30th 2010 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
don't fuck up

Love,
everyone]]>Mar 30th 2010 10:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
You're right, Apple is so behind the curve. I mean they actually have hardware available and the worlds largest mobile app store. But come on, this cartoon concept clearly demonstrates Microsoft's superiority.
]]>Mar 30th 2010 11:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 30th 2010 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/
I see this as another "me too" vapor-product. It's mostly going to pop Apple's bubble, not actually deliver. I don't doubt that Microsoft engineers are really, really smart... but management is more like Dilbert now. The problem becomes in order to produce this product, just like Windows 7 and Zune, Microsoft has to toss its entire "backward compatibility" mantra in order to build something like this. The problem is that Microsoft has botched EVERY attempt at mobile computing that's not "Windows + Office" except for Xbox.

Even if Microsoft put this on shelves tomorrow, what's the infrastructure? Windows apps are out, .Net and platform independence flopped. Can I migrate "plays for sure"? Can I migrate Windows mobile apps on my phone right now? Can I migrate my Zune library? What about migrating video and Xbox arcade games? Apple has been relatively stable during all these attempts by Microsoft to be interesting...beating Microsoft at their own "backward compatibility" game for mobile devices. ]]>Mar 30th 2010 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/

Are you serious ? Are you kidding me that most people buy a computer mostly for taking a notes. No, most productivity stuff still rely on professions application which need you sit on the desktop. So mouse /keyboard still the most productivity input method.

So, how much people really need input digital notes on the go ?
Not much I bet.

So, you are wrong, even m$ actually release it, it will just be a niche product and story will just end. ]]>Mar 31st 2010 12:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://bit.ly/tablet-by-microsoft-future

The day of its unveiling will surely be another historic day for the tablet history. ]]>Mar 31st 2010 2:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 31st 2010 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 31st 2010 2:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/30/switched-on-courier-courts-the-creative/Mar 31st 2010 3:52AM