There's been plenty of excitement swirling around about the never-officially-announced Microsoft "Courier" - a folding tablet computer that combines touch screen and pen input, and has/had/was thought to have a brand new, custom operating system. It looked like one of the most interesting ideas to come out of Redmond for a while, but alas, it's dead before arrival.
A Microsoft spokesperson tells Gizmodo:
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.