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Microsoft's Courier 'digital journal'

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I have no idea if this thing is real or not but ooooh, I hope it is. It looks sensational. 

via Engadget who has more images and video and says it’ll be an inch thick, weighs a little over a pound, and isn't much bigger than a 5x7 photo when closed.

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  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2010
    It better be real, I have about 20 friends going gaa-gaa for this thing, they're practically brainstorming features 24/7... and these people are NOT geeks. So far friends have suggested:
  1. Integration for Blackboard and other Electronic Course Systems (e.g. Moodle) for the courier, like Facebook works with WM7S. The calendar, announcements, resources, lecture slides etc being displayed natively in the system's interface.
  2. Recorded leactures, with the slides taking up one pane, the other pain divided half as notes and half as a video of the lecturer speaking.
  3. An Office that allows tasks such as Pie-Charts to be drawn roughly by hand (e.g. a circle divided into four segments) followed by the system offering to covert it into a real pie chart and for the data to be modified (i.e. input the %age of each segment and it will reformat "automagically") Because I showed the leaks to a couple of friends in Uni they now all want a piece... it's ridiculous. Microsoft would do wisely to release this product, even if it's a complete disappointment it would still probably sell well.

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2010
    Oh yeah one other thing, if they can recreate that paint application shown off at TechFest the other day, I'm buying this thing in a heartbeat.

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2010
    This is pretty cool. The other form factor that I would like to see would be something that could fit into on of those leather portfolios instead of the normal pad of paper. Ideally, it would have a screen big enough to show an 8 1/2"x11" document without scaling.

  • Anonymous
    March 05, 2010
    Hey Northern Geek - I think the second video shows a variant of that Paint type application - it shows her mixing the colours then drawing it on the second page.... :)

  • Anonymous
    March 06, 2010
    Steve, Fabretti and I are poised for reviewing Courier if it ever escapes from the Lab..   Somehow I get the feeling Courier is the tablet that BillG really wanted Cupertino start your photocopiers please..

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    March 07, 2010
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