ZDNet: iPad Rivals Falling Like Flies: Microsoft Courier Nixed
If you were holding off on buying an iPad in hopes some other major manufacturer would come up with something better or cheaper or running Windows 7, you may be in for disappointment. ZDNet Microsoft columnist Mary-Jo Foley discusses reports that Microsoft has killed its Courier project.
“Microsoft has decided to cancel Courier — the next-generation tablet that was in incubation at the company.
On April 29, Gizmodo was the first to report Microsoft’s decision. Corporate Vice President Frank Shaw gave me the same statement he gave to Giz: ‘At any given time, we’re looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating them. It’s in our DNA to develop new form factors and natural user interfaces to foster productivity and creativity. The Courier project is an example of this type of effort. It will be evaluated for use in future offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time.'”