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’.