Frank Shaw, Microsoft’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’s in Microsoft’s DNA to continually develop and incubate new technologies to foster productivity and creativity. The “Courier” 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.
This a huge bummer. This was the first thing out of Redmond in years that I actually wanted to use. Microsoft’s reluctance to launch products like this is going to get them in trouble sooner or later. They are going to lose the tablet market just as they have lost the smartphone market.
[ via Engadget]