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Hopefully this will be the blog that has short, frequent entries about doing the TabletPC thing.
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Congratulations, Microsoft, it's a bouncing baby touch screen tablet!
As anyone who attended last week's TabletPC chat on Microsoft's Expert Zone can attest, Microsoft has acknowledged paternity of the once-orphaned touch screen tablet. Original hardware requirements
for the Tablet PC Edition of Windows XP specified that "physical
contact must not be required to determine the stylus location." It was
only about a month ago that Fujitsu announced that the LifeBook P1500,
a touch screen convertible, would ship with the TabletPC Edition of
Windows XP, so when the opportunity arose, I asked during the chat if
this meant that Microsoft's definition of a TabletPC had been broadened
to include some devices without active digitizers, and the answer was a
definitive yes, that the Tablet PC family had gotten bigger.
Personally, I tried the P1510d with Windows Vista Beta 1 (since the device I
received had regular, painful Windows XP, and since I wanted a chance
to get some unique bugs submitted), and I was rather impressed. I
still prefer my active digitizer, but there's no doubting that the
Tablet Input Panel, along with applications that accept and translate
handwriting, takes the touch screen beyond neatness into the realm of
necessity.
Read the chat transcript here!
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