Bill Gates Says, Take This Tablet

摘要

The knottiest task in computing is making a ma chine as friendly and receptive as a piece of paper. Mi crosoft thinks it's got the problem beat. The mantra of its hundred-member Tablet PC team is "the simplicity of paper combined with the power of the PC." The prototype looks like a Palm on steroids, with a color screen and the alarming presence of the Windows task bar on the bottom. But using a special digital pen, you can write on it clipboard style, manipulate your scrawled notes like typed text, annotate all your documents and stylus-surf the Web.