Cool gear: Microsoft's Courier * updated

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Microsoft's Courier tablet.

I talked about it before *here* and *here* and to just about anyone who would listen. But according to all the blogs its dead.

Seriously? Dead?

What was the problem Microsoft? Not commercially viable? Couldn't just pull it all together? Really?

OK lets just take a moment here, and lets just talk seriously for a second. You had a concept that was different. You had had everyone drooling over this product. You had a tablet, with a purpose , it had meat to it, and you killed it? Please help me understand this?

Please, please, please tell me this is all just a ploy to surprise us all with with an actual product and a release date. PLEASE.