A Toshiba Portege M200 User shared these words of wisdom:

> This "improvement" rendars the vitual keyboard supporting pen
> writing not operable, surely it is not an "improvement" but more of
> a bug!

I take the liberty to disagree.

> My problem is not "opening" the keybaord, its that it would not
> become active long enough for me to "write" even 1 character. It
> also will not insert any character I managed to write into the
> application!

Seems that you might possibly do something wrong.
It works fine on my side.

> I guess the next best option for me is to remove SP2 and the update
> to the keyboard supporting the pen...

BEWARE of doing that!!
Apart from security issues you'd just loose too much.

Rainald