Now, that doesn’t mean that we won’t see some of this technology turn up in other products which Microsoft has in the pipeline (the company does keep quite a few balls in the air), but it does mean that those rendered videos of the Courier in action will remain, unfortunately, renders. As far as the Engadget team is concerned, there isn’t a dry eye in the house right now — but the Courier will always remain in our hearts as one of the finest unicorns that ever unicorned across our screens. (via Microsoft confirms, kills Courier in one fell swoop — Engadget

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