The Courier Tablet May Live Again

Microsoft may have killed off the fabled Courier Tablet, but if two enterprising developers have their way, it may live again ... as an iPad app! 2 Boeing engineers are on a quest to redesign the Courier interface on the iPad with an app called Taposé, and you can pledge $10 or more from now until May 21st to help make sure the project gets developed.

The Courier Tablet was a Microsoft Research project designed to make a dual-screen tablet where you could browse the web, email, and more on the left screen and then manage your notes and add content on the right screen. It was one of the first Microsoft products in a while to make even Apple fans excited. Or at least it was going to be. Unfortunately, Microsoft killed off the project, so Courier as we knew it will never see the light of day.

That's where the Taposé Project comes in. It'll be an app that will let you gather info from a left pane, and save it in a notebook on the right. The developers plan to let you share notebooks, so presumably there will be a Taposé webapp as well. Either way, it'll be exciting to see what they cook up! As a PC and iPad user, it'll be very interesting to see if Microsoft does end up making a Courier-style tablet in the future, but until then, this might be the killer productivity app we've been waiting for.

Read More at Taposé's Kickstarter.com Project and pledge to help make it a reality!

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