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Negative campaigning - a Microsoft vice president says that Windows on Tablet PC is "not good enough" and less useful than a cell phone.

It seems only one journalist had this story, which may be a little unusual for remarks from a Microsoft VP at a product launch fair.

I'm a Tablet user with arm stress from touch-typing, unimpressed by what Linux has offered for my particular needs, and since Microsoft seems to be market maker for Tablets, I also get nervous about what they're thinking. It does seem that what they're thinking includes Tablets going well in vertical markets like hospitals and real estate and insurance, where they can really stick it to customers on the licence cost - which of course is just hidden in the sticker price. Microsoft apparently also exclude tablet hardware that doesn't meet a particular specification from joining this particular party - must have wireless network, must have a magic radio stylus, can't even be desktop hardware. So it looks like a special opportunity for Linux, but I haven't heard it's happening. When I last looked, integration of non-keyboard, non-mouse input with standard desktop applications was the main gap - i.e., handwriting, speech recognition, even vkbd. Not that the Windows Tablet experience is perfect - not having a real shift or ctrl key for pointing-device operations has been a real bummer.

I have been meaning to check whether the new Linspire Live CD will run the Fitaly on-screen keyboard for Windows 2000, but would you believe Microsoft didn't even give me an ISO burner? But I scored the freebie BurnCDCC, which should work.