New details have emerged about the new Microsoft Courier tablet first revealed last week. According to Mary Jo-Foley at ZDNet, Courier could be out as early as the middle of 2010 and could be offered by Microsoft itself rather than a hardware partner (think Microsoft Xbox model).
Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 7 could be the operating system behind Courier. The interface and its journal concept were inspired by Microsoft OneNote and how it could look if designed specifically for tablets. A new video obtained by Gizmodo also shows again how the interface would work, this time in a more realistic manner. A library also keeps track of things like subscriptions, notebooks and applications.
The concept is very exciting but it remains to be seen how well it will translate into real life. We might just know sometime in 2010.