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Posted by Paul Constant on Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 11:40 AM
This "leaked" video for the Microsoft Courier is pretty incredible:
Courier User Interface from Gizmodo on Vimeo.
I love the idea of rethinking the personal computer as an endless book called the "infinite journal." It really appeals to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fan in me. And of course it would be a great ebook reader. Has Microsoft finally outdone Apple? I'm much more excited for the Courier than I am for the potential Apple Tablet.
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The reviews I've seen on this make it out to be awesome. I really hope it's not something like the Surface a great idea that spends too much time in development.
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The difference is that the Apple Tablet might actually ship. I sat through a lot of really truly genuinely awesome next-generation UI/next-platform UI demonstrations at company meetings when I was at Microsoft (developer, full-time, multiple groups, filled my 1st-gen lucite ship-it brick), and none of them ever got out of research. Which was a shame, because they looked really excellent. So does this, of course - maybe this'll be the one that actually works out.
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Paul, don't be so gullible. It's a glitzy interface on top of a prouct that offers no new solutions for the problem of finding and organizing all your crap, plus everyone else's crap that you want to keep track of.
"Scroll through your favorite sites until you find the missing piece!"
Right, because when I want to find a particular photo in my library of 3,783 images (which only covers 2008-2009, and only the ones I took myself -- forget about all the images to be found on my "favorite sites") nothing beats scrolling! I love to scroll and scroll until I find just what I was looking for.
"With a click, you can surf your contacts and share your inspiration with everyone on your team!"
Everyone on your team is Microsoftspeak for "everyone who is using a licensed copy of this product; excludes the entire rest of the world."
"Scroll through your favorite sites until you find the missing piece!"
Right, because when I want to find a particular photo in my library of 3,783 images (which only covers 2008-2009, and only the ones I took myself -- forget about all the images to be found on my "favorite sites") nothing beats scrolling! I love to scroll and scroll until I find just what I was looking for.
"With a click, you can surf your contacts and share your inspiration with everyone on your team!"
Everyone on your team is Microsoftspeak for "everyone who is using a licensed copy of this product; excludes the entire rest of the world."
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@12: Who runs out of storage space anymore? A *terabyte* of external storage can be had for $70. I can't even fill my iPod.
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Add a feature that allows me to dispense with the pen when I'm not drawing, and I'll be all over that bitch. Especially since I don't draw.
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I'm hoping there's a way out of the problem @8 brings up, but it is a classic Microsoft failing -- thinking that the internet is the LAN and the LAN is the internet. It would never occur to a Microsoft employee that someone "on the team" wouldn't be another Microsoft employee.
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@17 Jesus fucking christ, do you seriously believe Microsoft people are that brainwashed? Please.
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@13: and you're going to carry that around with your Infinite Journal? Perhaps a backpack of "pages" for your endless book?
It's just the slightly hyperbolic marketing language that falls apart the moment you actually poke it.
It's just the slightly hyperbolic marketing language that falls apart the moment you actually poke it.
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