[Am-info] Microsoft's write stuff

Erick Andrews Erick Andrews" <eandrews@star.net
Mon, 18 Nov 2002 08:58:47 -0500 (EST)


Ho, hum, another MS "innovation".  Sounds more like a solution[?] 
looking for a problem.  

http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/322/business/Microsoft_s_write_stuff+.shtml

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Firms embrace Tablet PC, but no one expects brisk sales

By D.C. Denison, Globe Staff, 11/18/2002

[F]resh out of the box, the Tablet PC, officially launched by Microsoft Corp. 
less than two weeks ago, is an unwieldy, unfamiliar contraption: all screen and 
no keyboard, a lot bigger and heavier than a handheld computer, controlled by 
a pen with a magnetic tip. 

[...]

''And if for some reason electronic entry isn't possible, they can go back to paper,''
Weideman added. ''The Tablet makes it easier for paper and electronic entry to coexist.''

[...]

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"...easier for paper and electronic entry to coexist?"  You can imagine my excitement!

-- 
Erick Andrews