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This should not be here because:

a) it's not a product

b) it's not even a prototype

c) it's from last September (and thus is not news)

d) nothing has been heard since (it's dead)

e) it's resurrected every time there is buzz about an Apple tablet - wonder if MS's PR has anything to do with it.

it's from last September ... nothing has been heard since (it's dead)

I'm not sure that follows. Last September isn't that long ago.

first sentence of the article: Courier is a real device, and we've heard that it's in the "late prototype" stage of development.

So It's at least a prototype

Yeah, right. Like WinFS, I suppose, or the Windows Vista that got shown at PDC 2003...