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Remember Microsoft Courier; Rings any bells? It was the famous, fantastic, incredible concept tablet which would make the iPad to resemble prehistoric fossils and MacOS X as easy to use as the command line of DOS. On 22 September, Gizmodo had come exclusively and made an extensive presentation of the miraculous (praise the Lord…) device, along with extensive reviews, even a small video which was leaked from Microsoft. The video showed a truly wonderful product - potentially a real digital notebook that combines a fluid touch pointing system, combining handwriting recognition. But it seems that in reality this was merely an exercise in design, an ultra-ambitious concept which never materialized, even in prototype stage. At the end of April came the official announcement of Microsoft that the project was canceled (at least we learned that there was a project in motion, even up to the drawing board ...).
As explained elsewhere in the news this month, Apple now has seized (again ...) the market by surprise, presenting the first implementation of a tablet device, the best yet (not to mention the only!) we've seen so far, and nobody is able to come up with something to threaten them. And I insist on the tablet because it is not a random matter, it’s not just what has been mentioned by many as "intercalary between smartphone and netbook”, but in reality it means much more: 26 years have passed since the Macintosh brought to the public the opportunity to be releases from the bonds of DOS and try a truly revolutionary way to use the computer, using a graphical desktop and mouse. Even today, if you watch all the outputs tablet and touch interface of Windows, you will see that behind each “click” (or rather "point") hides the arrow pointing, obvious that in Redmond they’re still not able to take the next big step in the user interface, a gap that was covered with a wonderful Apple iPhone, first, and then by iPad.
Of course, the Great Jobs is starting to behave strangely: suddenly he becomes a champion of open source, casting fire and brimstone upon Adobe and Flash, then imposing very strict rules on the iPhone OS SDK, forcing the 'heretical' and "non-compliant" code into oblivion. Also he proclaims, as innovative advocates, such characteristics of iPhone OS 4.0 as multitasking, grouping in folders and the unified inbox, functions well established in other platforms, years ago. What can I say? No one’s without sin!