Microsoft confirms Courier tablet, quashes hopes of shipping it

the8thark · the8thark #1 (**permalink**)

04-30-2010, 03:48 AM

Microsoft confirms Courier tablet, quashes hopes of shipping it
AppleInsider | Microsoft confirms Courier tablet, quashes hopes of shipping it

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Microsoft has finally confirmed that it has been working on a tablet concept known as "Courier," but the company has also announced that it has "no plans to build such a device at this time."

Village Idiot · Village Idiot #2 (**permalink**)

04-30-2010, 09:18 AM

Microsoft isn't a hardware company.

Kash · Kash #3 (**permalink**)

04-30-2010, 12:06 PM

I wonder what the Apple haters will latch onto next. HP Slate with webOS perhaps?

chscag · chscag #4 (**permalink**)

04-30-2010, 02:21 PM

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Microsoft isn't a hardware company.

Perhaps not to the extent that Apple or HP is. However let's not forget:

Microsoft Mice
Microsoft Keyboards
X-Box
Game Controllers (Flight Stick)
And a slew of failed hardware...

Regards.

the8thark · the8thark #5 (**permalink**)

04-30-2010, 02:27 PM

And now many of those hardware pieces does MS take a net loss on to hope to sell more overpriced software? Probably all of them I'd guess.

Village Idiot · Village Idiot #6 (**permalink**)

04-30-2010, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by chscag

Perhaps not to the extent that Apple or HP is. However let's not forget:

Microsoft Mice
Microsoft Keyboards
X-Box
Game Controllers (Flight Stick)
And a slew of failed hardware...

Regards.

You're calling the Xbox failed?

the8thark · the8thark #7 (**permalink**)

04-30-2010, 05:17 PM

Well you sell anything at a net loss (like the X-box) is, I would call that a fail.

DriftNismo · DriftNismo #8 (**permalink**)

04-30-2010, 05:52 PM

I'm dead sure I heard about this about 3 months ago while the iPad rumours were still going around... But only just announced?... Anyway, it's been done now, MS need to move on to something else.

osxx · osxx #9 (**permalink**)

04-30-2010, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Kash

I wonder what the Apple haters will latch onto next. HP Slate with webOS perhaps?

Not so sure. Hewlett-Packard To Kill Windows 7 Tablet Project

chscag · chscag #10 (**permalink**)

04-30-2010, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Village Idiot

You're calling the Xbox failed?

No. You may have read it that way, but that's not what I meant.

"And a slew of failed hardware" is referring to other hardware that MS has tried to push and was not successful. The items above that line have actually been pretty good for MS.

Regards.

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Member Since: Jan 27, 2007 Location: Brisvegas Posts: 5,658 Mac Specs: 17 inch 2 GHz C2D imac (5,1) with 3GB DDR2 RAM, X1600 (128MB memory) GPU - OSX 10.6.3	04-30-2010, 02:27 PM And now many of those hardware pieces does MS take a net loss on to hope to sell more overpriced software? Probably all of them I'd guess.
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