Windows for pen computing

We've reviewed several slates with Vista and Microsoft did a good job seamlessly integrating all the pen options. Microsoft's described the UMPC as "a device-like computer that is small, mobile, and runs the full Windows operating system.

The UMPC goes anywhere and does anything that your current computer can do. In May of , Microsoft loosened the design description to "any portable computer running full Windows with a screen size of 7 inches or smaller. MIDs do not necessarily have to run standard Windows. The iPhone's sleek and intuitive capacitive multi-touch interface redefined touch screens and what they can do, and all of a sudden everyone else is trying to follow suit.

We're seeing touch screens in regular consumer notebooks again, and even in desktop machines. In rugged machines we're more and more seeing "dual touch" systems that can use both touch and an electromagnetic pen. The Tablet PC never really caught on, in part due to technological issues and in part due to Microsoft's inconsistent attention to the platform. The newly released Windows 7 has integrated touch and multi-touch capabilities.

Implementation is often clumsy, which shows the difficulty of scaling up the super-smooth operation of the Apple iPhone. Rumors abound of a new Apple slate device all year, and come to a fever pitch at the CES in Las Vegas where numerous tablets and tablet concepts are shown. Microsoft had been expected to make some sort of tablet announcement, but, apart from CEO Steve Ballmer briefly showing an HP concept, nothing happens.

A few days later, however, Apple announced the iPad, a sleek 1. The device is clearly built from the iPhone up, and not from a notebook down, and so will primarily address the needs of those who have begun using their smartphones as notebook replacements but would like a larger screen. Microsoft, in the meantime, closes its Tablet PC blog and, for all practical purposes, their Tablet PC experiment is over. The iPad's introduction is met with downright scorn by many tech and mainstream journalists, but Apple proves them wrong as the iPad becomes a megahit, with some ten million sold in , and projections for much more ahead.

Everyone scrambles to get a piece of the tablet action, tablets are seen as threatening netbook sales, and the Android OS looms large as the prospective major competitor for Apple. Microsoft seems undecided on whether to develop its own true web-optimized OS, simply use Windows 7, or perhaps offer a scaled up version of its Windows Phone 7 mini-OS.

With some 15 million Apple iPads sold in , it is clear that the touch tablet platform has massive potential. Analysts predict huge media tablet sales, in part replacing netbooks, in part even standard notebooks.

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