Microsoft: End of the Line For Courier

Microsoft has announced they will not bring the Courier dual-screen tablet into production. While this may be disappointing news, everyone following the story can breathe a sigh of relief that the project wasn't just a group hallucination. In shutting down the prospects for Courier's public release, Microsoft definitively confirmed its existence. We may never know how close the real Courier came to matching those slick renderings revealed seven months ago.

Frank Shaw, Corporate Vice President of Corporate Communications, made the official Microsoft statement to Engadget: “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.”

That's all folks.