Oooh yes the MS Store! How is that venture going I wonder?
I heard that they had a customer last week.
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Originally Posted by Quadra 610
Microsoft didn't cancel the Courier, which never existed.
That's not really fair. I'm not sure it was EVER meant to be a Microsoft product.
Microsoft may have been simply exploring touch-based products for incorporation into Windows 7.5 or 8 with the intent that they could release a touch-enable OS and OTHERS would build the hardware.
Too bad. It was one of the more innovative products from MS.
I don't see it as being in competition with the iPad though. The iPad is a media consumption devices for the average person. The Courier would have been more of a productivity tool...much closer to replacing a PDA or a light laptop really, for a lot of business users.
Microsoft probably realized that Apple has already created the Courier. Someone would just buy two wi-fi iPads and put them in one carrying case where the iPads can face each other. One has the web running and the other has everything else running. They can talk to each other through wi-fi. Yes, it would cost $1,000. But at least those Microsoft fans can have their Courier today.
"It's in our DNA" and "It's not in our DNA" -- phrases well on their way to blatant overuse. Along with "robust" and "product b is like product a on steroids."
One I think that is flogged mercilessly is the term 'ecosystem'.
Microsoft has massive, massive R&D budgets and they've got TONS of prototypes and technologies that never explicitly become products. It's not a failure, it's just how R&D works. It's not vapourware, it's just how R&D works.
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but they do a lot of really cool stuff. Stuff 99% of people here wouldn't understand because it's not shiny, but it's still important. Courier was something they've been experimenting with for years, and things they've learned from Courier have been rolled into Zune HD and Windows Phone 7 and upcoming products.
Again, this is how R&D works. It's also a major tax credit.
Microsoft has massive, massive R&D budgets and they've got TONS of prototypes and technologies that never explicitly become products. It's not a failure, it's just how R&D works. It's not vapourware, it's just how R&D works.
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but they do a lot of really cool stuff. Stuff 99% of people here wouldn't understand because it's not shiny, but it's still important. Courier was something they've been experimenting with for years, and things they've learned from Courier have been rolled into Zune HD and Windows Phone 7 and upcoming products.
Again, this is how R&D works. It's also a major tax credit.
It is kind of funny though if you go back to the blogs prior to iPad launch and see all the WinBoiz saying they were waiting for the HP Courier and listing its many features that were better than iPad and how it would blow iPad away ... just saying
Too bad. It was one of the more innovative products from MS.
I don't see it as being in competition with the iPad though. The iPad is a media consumption devices for the average person. The Courier would have been more of a productivity tool...much closer to replacing a PDA or a light laptop really, for a lot of business users.
I think you confuse innovative with imaginary. I have a list of imaginary products, care to invest?
"It's in our DNA" and "It's not in our DNA" -- phrases well on their way to blatant overuse. Along with "robust" and "product b is like product a on steroids."
Microsoft has massive, massive R&D budgets and they've got TONS of prototypes and technologies that never explicitly become products. It's not a failure, it's just how R&D works. It's not vapourware, it's just how R&D works.
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but they do a lot of really cool stuff. Stuff 99% of people here wouldn't understand because it's not shiny, but it's still important. Courier was something they've been experimenting with for years, and things they've learned from Courier have been rolled into Zune HD and Windows Phone 7 and upcoming products.
Again, this is how R&D works. It's also a major tax credit.
Even when the basic product is not released to market, MS can still claim it as a tax credit, really?
"It's in our DNA" and "It's not in our DNA" -- phrases well on their way to blatant overuse. Along with "robust" and "product b is like product a on steroids."
Consider this: the Courier is actually more imaginary than a perpetual motion machine. With a perpetual motion machine, at least there are some people who are actually trying to build one. The Courier, even its biggest proponent has no plans of building one.
But wait. Maybe Goldman Sachs can package a synthetic security based on Courier futures, then they can hold the short side while all the people drooling over Courier's imaginary features can go long. Would that make the Courier less imaginary?
Microsoft has massive, massive R&D budgets and they've got TONS of prototypes and technologies that never explicitly become products. It's not a failure, it's just how R&D works. It's not vapourware, it's just how R&D works.
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but they do a lot of really cool stuff. Stuff 99% of people here wouldn't understand because it's not shiny, but it's still important. Courier was something they've been experimenting with for years, and things they've learned from Courier have been rolled into Zune HD and Windows Phone 7 and upcoming products.
Again, this is how R&D works. It's also a major tax credit.
Yeah, tell that one to the legions of Microsofties on Engadget threatening to commit suicide.
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Oooh yes the MS Store! How is that venture going I wonder?
I heard that they had a customer last week.
Microsoft didn't cancel the Courier, which never existed.
That's not really fair. I'm not sure it was EVER meant to be a Microsoft product.
Microsoft may have been simply exploring touch-based products for incorporation into Windows 7.5 or 8 with the intent that they could release a touch-enable OS and OTHERS would build the hardware.
I don't see it as being in competition with the iPad though. The iPad is a media consumption devices for the average person. The Courier would have been more of a productivity tool...much closer to replacing a PDA or a light laptop really, for a lot of business users.
Sent from my iPad.
"It's in our DNA" and "It's not in our DNA" -- phrases well on their way to blatant overuse. Along with "robust" and "product b is like product a on steroids."
One I think that is flogged mercilessly is the term 'ecosystem'.
Too bad. It was one of the more innovative products from MS.
What "product'?
BTW. When does JooJoo ship?
What's a joojoo?
http://research.microsoft.com
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but they do a lot of really cool stuff. Stuff 99% of people here wouldn't understand because it's not shiny, but it's still important. Courier was something they've been experimenting with for years, and things they've learned from Courier have been rolled into Zune HD and Windows Phone 7 and upcoming products.
Again, this is how R&D works. It's also a major tax credit.
Microsoft has massive, massive R&D budgets and they've got TONS of prototypes and technologies that never explicitly become products. It's not a failure, it's just how R&D works. It's not vapourware, it's just how R&D works.
http://research.microsoft.com
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but they do a lot of really cool stuff. Stuff 99% of people here wouldn't understand because it's not shiny, but it's still important. Courier was something they've been experimenting with for years, and things they've learned from Courier have been rolled into Zune HD and Windows Phone 7 and upcoming products.
Again, this is how R&D works. It's also a major tax credit.
It is kind of funny though if you go back to the blogs prior to iPad launch and see all the WinBoiz saying they were waiting for the HP Courier and listing its many features that were better than iPad and how it would blow iPad away ... just saying
Too bad. It was one of the more innovative products from MS.
I don't see it as being in competition with the iPad though. The iPad is a media consumption devices for the average person. The Courier would have been more of a productivity tool...much closer to replacing a PDA or a light laptop really, for a lot of business users.
I think you confuse innovative with imaginary. I have a list of imaginary products, care to invest?
Maybe Adobe could make a tablet that runs everything in Flash, since it so wonderful? Then Adobe could deliver 'the full web" to everyone?
"It's in our DNA" and "It's not in our DNA" -- phrases well on their way to blatant overuse. Along with "robust" and "product b is like product a on steroids."
Our robust DNA was just thinking outside the box.
Microsoft has massive, massive R&D budgets and they've got TONS of prototypes and technologies that never explicitly become products. It's not a failure, it's just how R&D works. It's not vapourware, it's just how R&D works.
http://research.microsoft.com
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but they do a lot of really cool stuff. Stuff 99% of people here wouldn't understand because it's not shiny, but it's still important. Courier was something they've been experimenting with for years, and things they've learned from Courier have been rolled into Zune HD and Windows Phone 7 and upcoming products.
Again, this is how R&D works. It's also a major tax credit.
Even when the basic product is not released to market, MS can still claim it as a tax credit, really?
"It's in our DNA" and "It's not in our DNA" -- phrases well on their way to blatant overuse. Along with "robust" and "product b is like product a on steroids."
Did someone already vote for (product)-killer?
Did someone already vote for (product)-killer?
No, but that's a comment that really "pops".
But wait. Maybe Goldman Sachs can package a synthetic security based on Courier futures, then they can hold the short side while all the people drooling over Courier's imaginary features can go long. Would that make the Courier less imaginary?
If a Courier falls in the forest . . .
but wait we already know that
Microsoft has massive, massive R&D budgets and they've got TONS of prototypes and technologies that never explicitly become products. It's not a failure, it's just how R&D works. It's not vapourware, it's just how R&D works.
http://research.microsoft.com
Sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but they do a lot of really cool stuff. Stuff 99% of people here wouldn't understand because it's not shiny, but it's still important. Courier was something they've been experimenting with for years, and things they've learned from Courier have been rolled into Zune HD and Windows Phone 7 and upcoming products.
Again, this is how R&D works. It's also a major tax credit.
Yeah, tell that one to the legions of Microsofties on Engadget threatening to commit suicide.