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The New Tablet PCs by

Microsoft!



What is it?

The Tablet PC is the evolution of the notebook PC that lets youuse your PC in new and different ways.

The Tablet PC makes it possible to control a computer with a

pen. The pen can be used like a mouse for navigation and to

enter text either to be stored as handwriting (or "digital ink") or tobe converted into computer text.

A pen-based, tablet PC has been a quest for Microsoft Corp.Chairman William H. Gates III since he and high-school chumPaul Allen first dreamed up Microsoft a quarter century ago.

Microsoft, Apple Computer and others have tried and failed overthe years to make a go of the business, in part because thetechnology wasn't up to snuff.



After many trials and failures, Microsoft says

it finally has tablet PC software that works.

For years, William H. Gates III and Warren E. Buffett haveroutinely mailed each other magazine articles that have caughttheir eye. They rip pieces out of the magazines, jot notes in the

margins, and pop them in the mail. Gates anticipates the daywhen he won't have to mess with all that. With his new TabletPC, he plans to call up articles from the Web, scrawl thoughtson the screen with a digital pen, and shoot it off to Buffett via e-mail. He's already using an early version of tablet software to

send electronically annotated articles to Microsoft colleagues. "Ihave anticipated this for many, many years. And here it is," says

Gates.



The Stylistic is a bit like an electronic

clipboard. There's no mechanical

keyboard, and data entry is done by writing

with the special pen or tapping a virtual

keyboard on the screen.

Radio-frequency pens and digitizers

A caveat: You don't want to lose the pen

with any tablet--unlike touch screens, you

can't substitute another stylus, a regular

pen, or a finger.



Design Tablet PCs come in a variety of designs,

all of which will include a keyboard.Convertible Tablet PCs look much liketoday's notebooks with integratedkeyboards and clamshell designs. Witha convertible Tablet PC, you simplyrotate the screen and lay it flat toconvert to Tablet mode. In this way, the

convertible model offers all theadvantages of pen-based computingwith immediate access to the integratedkeyboard.



Things learned from Microsoft's

first stab at pen computing:

In Pen Windows, the handwriting-recognition stuff wasn't that great. Thepens weren't that great. The battery lifewasn't that great. They were never goodenough that anybody at the companyever decided, "I'm going to show

everybody by just using this thing."



SLEEPLESS NIGHTSGates' revolution will have to start without

two of the industry's most importantsoldiers: Dell Computer and IBM.

Dell President Kevin B. Rollins says it will

wait to see how the market developsbefore jumping in.

IBM is more circumspect. "We don't see

significant growth opportunities," says FranO'Sullivan, general manager of PCproducts and services at IBM. If that

changes, IBM will get on board.



The new Tablet PCs hold promise

for select users, but they aren't

ready for prime timeIt is neat for a while to watch a PC turnthe handwriting into text--getting about 9out of 10 words right. But actually, thatgets old pretty fast. And while storinghandwritten notes, drawings, anddoodles in a computer has its uses, I

don't think it's enough to make a user torun out and buy a $2,000 Tablet PC.



The Real Strength

The real strength of the Tablet--and what will determine whether

there is a substantial market in its future--lies in the third-partyapplications being developed to take advantage of its uniqueabilities, especially the direct manipulation of objects on thescreen. These include drawing programs from Corel (CORL ) and

Alias/Wavefront; Zinio, a service that turns a tablet into a magazinereader; and an application from Franklin Covey that lets you writeappointments and notes on screens that resemble its plannerpages, then merge the data into Microsoft Outlook.

The tablet would be a wonderful way to use an image-editing program like Adobe Photoshop--if there were away to emulate the shift, alt, and control keys theprogram uses extensively.



An Image-editing Program



Question

Would you shell out $2000.00 to buy aTablet?

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