072. Notes on Tablet PC Innovation

"Microsoft's Tablet PC [is] the first Dynabook-like computer good enough to criticize." –Alan Kay (Xerox PARC) in Newsweek, 4/29/01

Few products have captured as much attention as Microsoft’s Tablet PC (except perhaps Xbox, which coincidently launched the same year). The company’s history working to deliver the form factor goes back to the earliest days of Windows. BillG’s intense focus on handwriting recognition led to one of the first extensions to Windows, Windows for Pen Computi…