Another Look At The Courier

Ever since I’ve seen those video’s I’ve been getting very impatient in terms of news.

I don’t know enough about Microsoft’s advertising strategy to comment on it, because I very rarely give Microsoft any notice (Especially when you consider that I work in an office of Apple Lovers and spend my time following Open Source fanatics on Twitter), so whether these videos are just advertising techniques or not, I can’t say.

But the Courier is grabbing my attention, so rather than trawl the web everyday for new information I set off a Google Alerts Feed to let me know of new Courier info, and to be honest, I wish I hadn’t, because it get’s filled with utter rubbish.

So here’s my take on everything Microsoft is currently doing, what I think the Courier is (vaporware or not?) and finally what happens next.

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I Really Really Really want a . . . . Microsoft Product

Shock horror right?

But the Microsoft Courier is just damn nice, the UI “seems” to make sense in the videos, how it works on hardware I admit I’m a little dubious about because flicking an image from one screen to another with a plastic hinge in the middle might not work so well.

But I’ve been thinking about it and it’s probably the first Microsoft product I’ve ever wanted, sure I used to use Windows, but thats only due to me not knowing the alternatives.

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Microsft Outlook 2010 – Using Words Rendering Engine??

So today I came across a tweet from Chris Coyier over at CSS-Tricks about this campaign site http://www.fixoutlook.org/ and I thought it was a good cause so I tweeted along with it and decided to give my 2 cents worth about why I think this situation has come about.

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