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Early Details On Courier, Microsoft's Take On a Tablet
rbanffy points out an article on Gizmodo about Courier, a tablet (or more accurately, a booklet) in development at Microsoft. "The dual 7-inch (or so) screens are multitouch, and designed for writing, flicking and drawing with a stylus, in addition to fingers. They're connected by a hinge that holds a single iPhone-esque home button. Statuses, like wireless signal and battery life, are displayed along the rim of one of the screens. On the back cover is a camera, and it might charge through an inductive pad, like the Palm Touchstone charging dock for Pre." A concept video shows off the ability to use the two different screens for separate purposes, like browsing the web or a photo album on the left and using the right as a notepad or workspace.
You see, MS is planning different versions of Win 7 for this. Aside from the Win 7 Home Basic, Home, Standard, Business, business Ultimate, Ultimate and Ultimate Top versions of the OS; they will have the Win 7 Tablet touch Home Basic, Tablet writable Home basic, ...well just calculate the combinations (nCr) of "Win 7", "Home", "Tablet", "Business", "Standard", "Ultimate", "Pen", and "Premium". Run all the combinations and you'll get the editions that are offered by MS when this is ready.
It's NOT me! It's the meds! I'm on 1000mg of Fukitol.
Microsoft keep making products that assume or even enforce a particular work flow.
What about those of us that aren't sales droids or road warriors?
Where is the command line interface? where is the C compiler and ssh app and X server?