Fri, 16 Sep 2005

Microsoft's Vista looks to get tablets on write track

Tablet computers will always be a sideshow - they'll never take off to become the new laptop. Why? Because handwriting is a disappearing skill - penmanship is no longer taught in schools beyond the most rudimentary levels, and nearly every document (even personal letters) is composed on a word processor. Even the typewriter has practically gone the way of the dodo.

The only way that tablet PC's could make any inroads would be for the old stenographer's skill at shorthand to make a comeback. This was the trick Palm used with the original Pilots - a standardized system of gestures and sweeps that conveyed information - but it sure as Hel was not handwriting!

With new desktop Windows, company hopes to solve some Tablet-tech problems, starting with your unintelligible scrawl.

(link) [CNET News.com]

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