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Microsoft "Courier" secret tablet

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The original 2009 concept video for Microsoft's unreleased dual-screen Courier tablet and its digital notebook interface.

Microsoft's "Courier" tablet, first unveilved by Gizmodo

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What people say. Remembered by engineers as a highly influential and ahead-of-its-time concept for digital note-taking and tablet UX.

widgetycrankon Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Next Six Months”

I'm not sure if anyone remembers the Microsoft Courier tablet demo, which came out before iPad's announcement: link to this video This video left me with a strong impression of future general computing usage patterns. It has also been my personal gold standard of a superb video demo. Interestingly enough, they abandoned it right after iPad's release: link
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On “Ballmer forced out after $900M Surface RT debacle, analyst says”

I thought the Courier was a great idea not just for the dual screens but the software as well the scraps and notes seemed like a great idea. link to this video
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muhfuhkuhon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Cisco Cius: Cisco Unveils Android-Based, Business-Focus Tablet Computer”

At least they got further along than MS Courier. They actually have a useless prototype, rather than a vaporvid1. 1 link to this video
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mmorrison Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask: Do you still find any benefits in using handwriting?”

…torage/retrieval is annoying (no search!) - Sharing/collaboration is not as good as digital I'm still dreaming of something like the Microsoft Courier Concept 0. We've gotten a lot closer since the concept came out (e.g., the MS Surface), but I think we're still not quite at the point where a digital notebook can feel just like paper + pen. 0: link to this video…
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jahloveon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Microsoft announces dual-screen Surface Neo”

Here 1 is the original concept video for the Courier. I remember it generated a ton of hype when that video came out. link to this video
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wilsonthewhaleon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices”

That picture gave me a big Courier vibe1, always wished Microsoft could have made that happen. 1: link to this video
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Nitionon Hacker News • Mentions

On “How to annotate everything”

Microsoft Courier was designed to solve this ten years ago, by being essentially a digital version of a notebook1. You'd fill your notebook with digital clippings from any media and freely annotate them. 1 link to this video
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Nitionon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Thoughts on “E-Readers” (2009)”

…e momentum of atoms. This is of course a prescient prediction of the iPad. But what it also reminded me of is a device that had already been shown publicly at the time: The Microsoft Courier. Microsoft was working on a dual-screen tablet that was essentially a notebook in computer form, complete with custom OS.1 In the end it never happened. 1 link to this video…
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