It's no iPad... and that's a good thing.

Update: A couple more articles on the Microsoft Courier's current devolution, as Gizmodo calls it. I still think the interface idea is interesting, and is a step towards a more visual and less folder- and file-based use of the 'desktop' metaphor - it also seems to allow more cross-application sharing of data than the iPad. Saving you a click through, Gizmodo's latest article is based on this Engadget post.

Update: A friend said the book metaphor was dated, but I contend that it is not a book, it's two monitors, upping productivity.

Gizmodo has posted pictures and video of Microsoft's new "tablet" - which, it turns out, is more of a 'booklet'. The video is very much worth watching, especially if you are an interaction designer.

I happen to think this is FAR closer to what I had hoped the iPad to be.


Instead we got this: