{"id":10900,"date":"2010-03-05T16:34:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/microsoft-couriers-devolution-microsoft\/"},"modified":"2010-03-05T16:34:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-05T16:34:27","slug":"microsoft-couriers-devolution-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/futurist\/microsoft-couriers-devolution-microsoft.php","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Courier’s Devolution [Microsoft]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>These fresh images and details<\/a> of Microsoft's Courier paint a slightly different device than the one uncovered a few months ago<\/a>—tinier seeming, perhaps less genre-busting, and a more direct iPad fighter.<\/p>

<\/a>This take is built on the same mobile OS core as Windows Phone 7 and Zune HD, powered by Nvidia's Tegra 2 hardware<\/a>. It's supposedly thinner than an inch, under a pound, and about the size of a 5x7 photo when closed.<\/p>

As you can see, the device seems even smaller (Update<\/strong>: maybe not), the interface, though still pen-based, seems less whizzy based on these stills than the wildly complex and sophisticated (or maybe just<\/em> complex) interface shown earlier<\/a>:<\/p>

Is Courier progressing or regressing? It's hard to tell—we're not sure where in Courier's development these concepts are from vs. our initial reportage. But if they are newer, a few things stand out.<\/p>

• Courier's grown to be more realstic and less different<\/em>, which is not uncommon for mind-bogglingly radical-seeming products. (Our mind was blown by the original interface, anyway, for better or worse.)<\/p>

• Shifting from using Windows 7 as its core as Mary Jo Foley first reported<\/a> to Windows CE6 and mobile guts puts it more squarely against the iPad, using a similar philosophical approach of scaling up<\/a> to a tablet, vs. scaling down as Microsoft's always done before. (Which makes sense, given that this is supposedly J. Allard's project<\/a>—he'd want to use E&D's own goods to power his tablet.) Also, mobile guts are cheaper than low-power laptop guts.<\/p>

• This could be one of the several prototype<\/a> tablets J. Allard's got—which would explain why there's versions that seem more like full Windows 7 vs. Windows Phone 7.<\/p>

• Engadget pegs the launch date later this year, though we've heard separately that Courier won't show up anytime in 2010.<\/p>

• We're still pretty excited.<\/p>

[Engadget<\/a>]<\/p>

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