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Microsoft may not have got it all right with some – or most, depending on once perspective – of its product and software launches over the past few years and Apple’s iPod may be way ahead of Microsoft Zune in portable media players, you could bet your iPhone on Microsoft not sitting idle  and letting Apple’s  much hyped and awaited iPad take all the glory and time under the sun

Around the time  iPad’s new video commercial was unveiled, images of  Microsoft’s dual-screen Courier have started appearing online , and the book like device have been designed  to compete directly against the iPad..

Microsoft sure is determined to spoil Apple’s party with a spectacular device. .Courier was rumored to have Windows phone 7 Interface with less than one inch thickness and a built-in camera powered by NVIDIA Tegra 2 graphics processor.

With an expected launch after June 2010 it may come as a breath of fresh air for users who consider iPad a larger screen version of iPhone and are looking for an alternate.