Sorry, are you saying that had billg not shut down Courier, Microsoft would have made the iPad?

Its rather like the Winklevoss twins - if Microsoft could have invented the iPad, they would have invented the iPad.

No, they're saying had billg not should down Courier, Microsoft would have made Courier.

The Courier looked far more like it would've found an actual market than Surface RT.

The question is really how much of what leaked was functional versus what they hoped it was going to do.

If you look just at the journal parts of the video, the parts Paper can duplicate, most of them are not in Paper at all. Paper is just a special type of drawing app.