On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 08:27:03 -0800, "me" <me@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:

>2. "Handwriters" People who want to be able to handwrite at their desk - I
>think this is a tiny market of mainly geeks and creative types.

Plus those like me, who have a disability which makes it impossible or
inadvisable to type. (My ability to use a stylus is also limited, and
I rely on speech recognition software for most of my computer work,
but I believe that for editing existing text, handwriting recognition
would be a much more effective tool.)

I won't speculate on how large the market for desktop handwriting
recognition is, but speech recognition software is an analogous
product that is commercially viable despite having captured only a
small proportion of computer users. I suspect that if handwriting
recognition gained a comparable following, its total number of users
would increase substantially.

As I consider the potential usefulness to me of a tablet PC, its
greatest single limitation is the apparent lack of tools for
integrating it into my desktop environment.

My email address is llm040903 at earthlink dot net.