Microsoft Miscarries the Courier, World Mourns

According to a new Gizmodo update on the Microsoft Courier, the highly anticipated tablet has officially become the innovative Microsoft product that never was. The Courier, a device that was originally broken by Gizmodo last fall, has been canceled according to two sources the blog consulted with.

Gizmodo quotes Microsoft’s VP of Communications Frank Shaw as saying: “At any given time, we’re looking at new ideas, investigating, testing, incubating them. It’s in our DNA to develop new form factors and natural user interfaces to foster productivity and creativity. The Courier project is an example of this type of effort. It will be evaluated for use in future offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time.”

The Courier was a dual-screen, journal-style tablet that promised to offer an entirely new look to the tablet market. It combined touch- and pen-based input and was a device that the tech market was really looking forward to.

The Courier was exactly the type of innovation that we’ve stop expecting from Microsoft, so I guess this shouldn’t come as a surprise. At least we got the Project Pink phones. Yay. [via Gizmodo]