Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 23rd Sep 2009 17:32 UTC
While half the world is waiting for Apple's take on the tablet - pretty much guaranteed to arrive somewhere next year - Microsoft has come out with a very interesting new take on the tablet, the Courier. It's a dual-touchscreen device, shaped like a book, and is in the late prototype stage of development.
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The one reason it will NEVER happen is that it would require throwing Windows of any version away... and Microsoft has programed companies and users that they "must" have MS Windows.
That said it's sweet hardware. The main change I would make would be to have a flexible OLED screen that was true "legal" size or "tabloid" size. Then this would double as a portable document viewing.
This is where something like Haiku or Ubuntu should be heading... Crazy new software & hardware that doesn't "look" like a desktop or phone or netbook. Netbooks were almost that new thing until Microsoft corrupted them. I think technology wise this would work now, but what about applications. Again, the whole concept of an "application" that you would load and select and pay money for on something like this is silly. For this to really work people have to be able to work by data type and not by "application". The screen is a workbench for raw "work" that is a really cool idea in the demo that needs to carry forward. Everything not "work" on the screen/device needs to go away and create new ways of thinking about devices.