{"id":394315,"date":"2010-03-05T11:34:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5486583"},"modified":"2010-03-05T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:34:27","slug":"microsoft-couriers-devolution-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/394315","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Courier&#8217;s Devolution [Microsoft]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/courierfreshhher.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/500x_courierfreshhher.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\"  title=\"Microsoft Courier's Devolution\"\/><\/a>These <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/03\/05\/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures-and-de\/\">fresh images and details<\/a> of Microsoft&#8217;s Courier paint a slightly different device than the one <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5365299\/courier-first-details-of-microsofts-secret-tablet\">uncovered a few months ago<\/a>&mdash;tinier seeming, perhaps less genre-busting, and a more direct iPad fighter.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/courerhands.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/03\/500x_courerhands.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\"  title=\"Microsoft Courier's Devolution\"\/><\/a>This take is built on the same mobile OS core as Windows Phone 7 and Zune HD, powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5428016\/tegra-2-coming-in-january-nvidia-promises-netbooks-smartphones-and-smartbooks-galore\">Nvidia&#8217;s Tegra 2 hardware<\/a>. It&#8217;s supposedly thinner than an inch, under a pound, and about the size of a 5&#215;7 photo when closed.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, the device seems even smaller (<strong>Update<\/strong>: maybe not), the interface, though still pen-based, seems less whizzy based on these stills than the wildly complex and sophisticated (or maybe <em>just<\/em> complex) <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5380626\/courier-user-interface-in-depth\/gallery\/\">interface shown earlier<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><script language=\"JavaScript\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\nplayMBX('video_uid=4c96d3b4191ce2c6c3&security_token=prod3.f6f48df43c519278&type=sd');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Is Courier progressing or regressing? It&#8217;s hard to tell&mdash;we&#8217;re not sure where in Courier&#8217;s development these concepts are from vs. our initial reportage. But if they are newer, a few things stand out.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Courier&#8217;s grown to be more realstic and less <em>different<\/em>, which is not uncommon for mind-bogglingly radical-seeming products. (Our mind was blown by the original interface, anyway, for better or worse.)<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Shifting from using Windows 7 as its core as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=4103\">Mary Jo Foley first reported<\/a> to Windows CE6 and mobile guts puts it more squarely against the iPad, using <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5461767\/the-two-wrong-ways-to-make-a-tablet\">a similar philosophical approach of scaling up<\/a> to a tablet, vs. scaling down as Microsoft&#8217;s always done before. (Which makes sense, given that this is <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/microsoft\/?p=4011\">supposedly J. Allard&#8217;s project<\/a>&mdash;he&#8217;d want to use E&#038;D&#8217;s own goods to power his tablet.) Also, mobile guts are cheaper than low-power laptop guts.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; This <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5366002\/courier-isnt-the-only-secret-microsoft-tablet\">could be one of the several prototype<\/a> tablets J. Allard&#8217;s got&mdash;which would explain why there&#8217;s versions that seem more like full Windows 7 vs. Windows Phone 7.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Engadget pegs the launch date later this year, though we&#8217;ve heard separately that Courier won&#8217;t show up anytime in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>&bull; We&#8217;re still pretty excited.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/03\/05\/microsofts-courier-digital-journal-exclusive-pictures-and-de\/\">Engadget<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=39d2b29808892da952b238915b35a5fc&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=39d2b29808892da952b238915b35a5fc&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=XsHGG6aya7I:kk9Vcys3OgY:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/XsHGG6aya7I\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These fresh images and details of Microsoft&#8217;s Courier paint a slightly different device than the one uncovered a few months ago&mdash;tinier seeming, perhaps less genre-busting, and a more direct iPad fighter. 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