Microsoft booklet

[knowledgegranted]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WYWGKnVkEw&feature=player_embedded#

[d_stilgar]

Yes. That is the device I want. That looks so much better than a iPad. It does lack a store pre-filled with thousands of aps. What it does have, though, is a stylus, which is what I would want in a device like that.

[pcclan]

ok i want this and it's making me scream like a little school girl over it

[Zephik]

This is why Apple should never release their products first. They're freaking amazing at taking pre-existing products and ideas and polishing them into irresistable items, but let them be the first to tackle something as simple and basic like a tablet and if you aren't dissappointed at launch then you will be once the competition wises up to all the negative remarks and launches their own improved version.

Although Apple still has that killer software/app store under their belt. The device isn't exactly horrible either so much as it's massively dissappointing in just about every way. In fact... Yea, I'm really not sure if there is ANYTHING about the iPad hardware that I actually like or prefer. It's just so very meh. Surely they saw the CrunchPad and everyone who were drooling over the RC??

Apple has really shown a serious lack of innovation, design and all around professionalism lately. The Microsoft Courrier is a large bit of proof of that. Maybe they should just stick to what they're good at; iPods, MacBooks and simple-to-use Software.

Good job Microsoft! It looks like you're finally listening to your customers. Windows 7, Mobile 7 and Courier. Nice bit of track record they've got going.

[crenn]

Remember, this is a concept, not an actual product... yet. But this is why I'd kept with microsoft. Their R&D is very futuristic.

[x88x]

Wow, as much as I generally despise Microsoft, I have to admit..that does look pretty awesome. My one concern would be how large that double screen would be and how easy would it be to use it unfolded like that?



let them be the first to tackle something as simple and basic like a tablet

They were far from the first to make a tablet, but that's neither here nor there. It's still a massively disappointing device. :P

[chaksq]

The first tablets were made in the 1980s. GRiD was one of the first companies to make them.

Flipping forward to the present this concept from Microsoft looks really promising. Particularly seems like a great device for multitasking and productivity, unlike a certain other tablet.

[knowledgegranted]

One thing is wrong with companies, they form concepts like these and never make them. There used to be companies in which they started development the day after the idea, we called these people inventors.

[crenn]

It's what the mass consumers want, not what the nerds want ;P

Either way, the hardware probably isn't that special, it's more the software behind it that makes it like magic

[diluzio91]

if microsoft pulls this off they have my vote. for sure... im just worried that it wont have the hardware to back it up... i fear slow loads and lag in the future... lol

[luciusad2004]

The main difference seems that this actually looks like a productivity device. The iPad is at its best a media device in my eyes. I'd watch a movie on the ipad, Id read a book or magazine on the iPad, In a pinch id listen to some music but I certainly wouldn't carry it around as an iPod replacement. Its to big for that.

Courier on the other hand I would plan my day out with. Use it to streamline my work flow and keep productive were ever I go.

It seems possible the two devices could co-exist and sell to different audiences but I imagine that microsofts tablet can probably also do everything the iPad does even if in a more complex less watered down way.