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Will be #1 on Vaporware 2010. Last year winner was Crunchpad.

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To be fair, MS never announced that Courier was a real product.

But they leaked existence and now they required to leak its death. That is good enough to qualifies as vaporware.

Aside from that. I like, "Microsoft Kills iPad Killer" perfect headline for this news. http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/04/29/microsoft-kills-...

Hard to argue with a title like that =)

It's a wonder Apple's products even go out in the open anymore, with so many potential murderers.

Oddly, it's leak was timed to coincide with one of the dates Apple was supposed to announce a tablet, in order to steal some press space.

Nobody ever believed it would be a real product.

Plenty of people believed it would be a real product, they were also very excited about it. It looked like something very innovative from Microsoft. Why produce such a slick looking video for vaporware?

But just like Cairo with is object file system, Microsoft got us again.

I think this was based on Inkskein, which is not vaporware. I don't see why such a thing isn't possible. The iPad could support such an interface. Just divide the screen in two in landscape. This is what I'd want Evernote to become.

I think someone's already started on the iPad-ish take on Courier:

http://www.popplet.com/

Wasn't Duke Nukem Forever slated to run on a Courier? Damn, I guess it'll never come out now.

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