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Analyzing the Microsoft Tablet PC

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-its-still-neat dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet UK has an amusing - but accurate in my view - review of the Microsoft Tablet PC. It may not be the first, but it is the most incisive because of the way it dissects the many fundamental flaws in Microsoft's latest creation."

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  1. Re:Mod Parent Down by aziegler · · Score: 5, Informative
    Parent is the idiot who can't read the review; this is most certainly about the Mira Smart Display, not the Tablet PC. IMO, the Mira has always been stupid because of MS's stupid multi-user licensing policies. The Tablet PC is a much better idea, if not as skillfully executed as it could be (it's still pretty damned good, though).

    (From the review: Whatever the thinking behind Microsoft's Smart Display technology -- a battery-powered notebook screen without a notebook, linked to a PC by wireless networking and taking stylus input -- it doesn't seem to have included what users actually want. Emphasis added.)

    -austin

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    Ni bhionn an rath achx mar a mbionn an smacht (There is no Luck without Discipline)
  2. This is not a tablet PC by coupland · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... as has already been pointed out. However more importantly, editors please update the headline to acknowledge the mistake. Lots of people may read the comments, see a single +5 comment pointing out this isn't a Tablet, next to dozens of Anti-MS comments and assume the +5 guy is a crackpot. He is not. This is a Windows Terminal Server device used to control your Windows desktop while walking around the house. It's isn't remotely Tablet PC.