MSFT has canceled "Courier" tablet — reportedly

And Gizmo claims that Frank Shaw at MS says:

"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."

Apart from their keyboard and mice this was the first microsoft device I was looking forward to :). While it might not be a mainstream need, a device with great pen based input and support for math symbols would be great for what I do.

It was only ever a design exercise. I suspect that Microsoft never had plans to develop and sell the courier. However, based on the excitement and demand, I wouldn't be surprised to see one of the hardware vendors pick-up the torch.

And commenters are already moaning the loss (of non-existent product) already at http://www.crunchgear.com