Someday, You'll Own a Tablet PC

LPH · #1 (**permalink**) 06-18-2004, 07:43 AM

There's been a lot of talk around eWEEK.com about the future of the Tablet PC, so I've decided to add my two cents' worth. My prediction? Someday every business notebook that uses a Microsoft operating system will be a Tablet PC. And most of them will even have tablet features!

Whether you will use your future notebook as a tablet—even whether it will be possible to do so with your machine—will depend on what you buy and how you choose to use it. But make no mistake: Tablet "goodness" will be baked right in, whether your screen has a digitizer or not. Why? Because it's very likely that tablet support will be a standard part of the Longhorn OS.

And as we move toward Longhorn, Microsoft is investing a lot of money in hardware technology to persuade notebook manufacturers to make tablet features a standard part of their notebooks. Microsoft's goal is to push the marketplace rather than wait for evolution to popularize tablet.

Someday, You'll Own a Tablet PC

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