{"id":547366,"date":"2010-04-29T18:54:44","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T22:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=15858"},"modified":"2010-04-29T18:54:44","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T22:54:44","slug":"microsoft-courier-%e2%80%93-we-barely-knew-ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547366","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Courier \u2013 we barely knew ya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/030510courier2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"147\" \/>Microsoft has been unusually forthright with Gizmodo when they enquired about Microsoft\u2019s elusive dual tablet.<\/p>\n<p>According to Frank Shaw, Microsoft&#8217;s VP of corporate communications:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>At any given time, across any of our business groups, there are new ideas being investigated, tested, and incubated. It&#8217;s in Microsoft&#8217;s DNA to continually develop and incubate new technologies to foster productivity and creativity. The &quot;Courier&quot; project is an example of this type of effort and its technologies will be evaluated for use in future Microsoft offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/04\/29\/microsoft-confirms-kills-courier-in-one-fell-swoop\/\" >Engadget<\/a> speculates that the idea was at one time in development, but never really panned out internally and was eventually abandoned.&#160; We have however seen some of the ideas implemented in other products, such as the sharing feature in the <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=kin\" >KIN<\/a> so in the end all is not lost, and who knows, maybe many of the features will make a re-appearance when cut and paste come to <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=windows-phone-7-series\" >Windows Phone 7<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5527442\/microsoft-cancels-innovative-courier-tablet-project\" >Gizmodo here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-6210711459792056\";\n\/* 336x280, created 1\/7\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0551502062\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has been unusually forthright with Gizmodo when they enquired about Microsoft\u2019s elusive dual tablet. According to Frank Shaw, Microsoft&#8217;s VP of corporate communications: At any given time, across any of our business groups, there are new ideas being investigated, tested, and incubated. It&#8217;s in Microsoft&#8217;s DNA to continually develop and incubate new technologies to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}