With the Surface all over the place I did a bit of poking around to find out what happened to the Microsoft Courier which was proposed back in 2008:

Turns out it’s a pretty interesting tale. Remember Xbox king J Allard who criminally lost all his hard worked credibility by being handed the poisoned chalice that was the Zune? Well, the Courier was his baby – and he worked hard to make it happen. But it was dumped by the MS leadership in favour of the Windows 8/Metro model of a ‘tablet OS everywhere’.

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My HTC Sensation was mortality damaged a few weeks ago forcing me into an early upgrade.

As a replacement I chose a Galaxy Nexus and wow, it’s beautiful. The real winner here is the pure Android software. After years putting up with HTC Sense (first on the Desire then Sensation) I’ve finally seen the light. Why companies like HTC and Samsung persistent in throwing there own wares on top of this gorgeous framework is a mystery.

Anyhow. More later. This was just to test out the latest WordPress app 🙂