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    <title><![CDATA[Discussion on How Microsoft blew it with the Courier tablet ]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[opinion]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thanks for shring the info.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[ArnoldRichard]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:59:52 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Debatable comment, poor grammer]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349973-3524252]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[The comment in proper English should have read: &quot;It reminds me of what Steve Jobs said about Microsoft's Bill Gates having no creativity; (he) just steals ideas from others.  That's why Apple churns out so many innovative products.&quot;  Bad grammar, syntax and spelling can detract from the impact of a statement and make the speaker appear considerably less intelligent than he or she really is.   I don't think there is as much lack of creativity on the part of Bill Gates as the writer alludes.  Saying that Bill Gates &quot;steals ideas&quot; is borderline slander.  We all have at one time or another seen an idea or concept that inspires us to at least think about a better version or an alternative version.  If anything, Mr. Gates has been too conservative, less inclined to take risks.   Steve Jobs, when he came back to Apple, realized that he had to take a 'make or break' risk to bring Apple back into the marketplace.  Steve Jobs had a superb ability to analyze and take calculated risks.  Some were bad, but many more were really good which more than made up for the losses incurred from the risks that didn't pan out.  In the case of the Courier Tablet, Mr. Gates and staff assumed that their new product would be eclipsed by the I-Pad (just on popularity and the name alone) and my guess is that he and his staff were still suffering from &quot;Zune Shell-shock&quot; which made them change their mind about marketing a good product.  My guess is that the fear of being trumped again by Apple caused them to make a stupid decision to limit marketing of the Courier.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jor55]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:12:12 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Vulpine is spot on wrt CAD]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Not only is AutoCAD 2012 supported so is Siemens Unigraphics. Microstation doesn't support OSX but they have always been a little squirelley... You are right about ESRI support on the desktop, but they do target IOS with the ArcGIS mobile product. They were originally a *NIX based product so I'm sure the only reason they don't target OSX is market.ADDENDUM (11-08-2011): I'm using ArcGIS on my iPad right now to review some biological station locations. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bundy]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:10:15 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[It does to me]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Cause I love the history of technology. Did you ever watch &quot;Connections&quot;? I guess I was wondering what Arab silk trader from 409AD had an influence on the slider control. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Charles Bundy]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:52:14 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Agreed]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I can't tell you how many notebooks I have around the house so I can capture thoughts, ideas, notes, etc. I'd love to have something that would fill the position. And no, it will never be an IPad or any other Apple device. Between their offensive, misleading, denigrating marketing strategies, their fallacious claims about inventing everything from the mouse, MP3 player, and Pad computer, and finally their overwhelmingly smarmy, elitist following, they won't ever get a red cent from me.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Jonathon Dogue]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:09:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When we no longer need to eat.  No text.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:52:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Another MS stumble]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[My first encounter with OneNote was a free copy that was included with the Toshiba M400 tablet in the mid-00s.  I thought it would be the killer app for XP Tablet, and I think the tablet / OneNote combination is another opportunity MS missed.  I find OneNote useful on a desktop; it must kick butt on a modern tablet.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:48:32 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Form factor]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I confess to drooling when I saw the photos in this article.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:44:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You're mixing tenses there.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[First, since the Courier never reached the market, we really don't know what kinds of capabilities it would have had. Personally, I think it would have been very fair competition to the iPad simply because of its book-like form factor.Secondly, there are tablets with the capabilities hinted at by these videos, though they usually use multiple apps to do so. Really, that's not much of an issue as you can do your shopping, your scheduling, your writing, drawing, pretty much anything the Courier might have done is already available on other platforms--if you only deign to look.Past tense? Present tense? Let's look into Future tense instead and see where we're going instead of where we've been.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:24:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I do believe you got that concept backwards]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[As Bundy, above, points out, the Courier was a tablet--or rather a book--with a purpose; it was the form factor that would have made it, not the software. Quite honestly the teasers we saw about the software made it look grossly underutilized. Yes, software is important, but you're limiting the device to a single app when in all reality that thing could have run thousands of apps, as long as they weren't full Windows apps with that overblown overhead that comes with all desktop apps today. The Courier, in my opinion, would have done far better than any of the tech pundits want to believe.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:17:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does it matter?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Apple holds most of those patents now and is using it for all its worth. Since many of those Gestures were developed by a couple of University of Delaware professors and Apple purchased their patents--well, guess who's got the lead?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:11:08 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Personally? I think any current version of Office is gross overkill]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The Courier would have forced Microsoft to realize that people really don't need such huge overhead simply by tracking the normal usage of the product. I'm willing to wager that using Word as Word and leaving the desktop publishing to Publisher they could have saved themselves a lot of work, money and profits--since a stripped down Word could sell for maybe $50 and still be grossly overpriced.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:09:00 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I'll disagree; the Courier had a lot of potential.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349973-3518999]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Though I will agree that Microsoft's intent was far, far below that potential. I would rather have seen the thing come out for itself and maybe tried to see what it could do for myself than trust people who initially rejected the GUI as a viable computing interface.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:05:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When was the last time you were in a lecture hall?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349973-3519013]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[It's not like they give you this great, big, desk on which you can set a computer, it's barely big enough for a note pad. And certainly it's not comfortable trying to type when the keyboard is above elbow level.No, what I see is Substance with Style, a devices that is only as much as you need when you need it. Why tote around a keyboard all the time when your one finger is faster and you don't even need to set the tablet down to use it? In all honesty, my tablets have flat replaced my laptops for every purpose I once used a laptop--especially meetings and classes. Don't get me wrong, there really are times when a laptop is a better choice--but for me, the tablet has replaced 90% of that functionality by simply being more mobile.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 09:01:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[You might note they slammed the iPad too]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349973-3519011]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[And look where it is now.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:48:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Remember, Gates didn't see the potential of the GUI either...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... until Apple announced they were working on one. Gates refused the offer to look at the Xerox technology. It's that inability to imagine potentials that have caused us so many problems over the years.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:59:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[&amp;quot;Microsoft still has the lion's share of desktop...&amp;quot;]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349973-3518972]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[But the desktop is no longer the lion's share of the market.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:58:12 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Who is this &amp;lt;i&amp;gt;we&amp;lt;/i&amp;gt; you speak of?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-349973-3518970]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Are you telling me that you used a pen&amp;paper clipboard 8 hours a day, every day? Not everybody believes that a tablet was intended to flat replace a desktop computer--not even Apple. Rather, it was intended to be a go-between device--a supplemental device that gave you access to your desktop files while you were on the move but leave the heavy lifting to the desktop itself.I can't help it that so many people choose to misunderstand a very well described product at launch.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:55:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Dude, you need to do some research]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Not only is AutoDesk's AutoCAD available for OS X  right now but so are lesser apps that serve the same kind of purpose--and I don't mean MiniCAD.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:51:03 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[No, the original tablet concept...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[... was to use it like a tablet--a clipboard with papers on it. If it had been meant to use as a book, they would have called it a book, no?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vulpinemac]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:48:10 -0700</pubDate>
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