Progress seen as steady as Tablet PC turns one
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
It's been a year since Microsoft Corp. launched Windows XP Tablet PC Edition and declared a new chapter in the history of personal computing to be starting. The platform hasn't caught on as fast as its biggest cheerleader was perhaps hoping, but despite a quiet first year few are willing to dismiss the platform just yet.
It's tempting to write off the Tablet PC as a failure. After all, Microsoft Corp. Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates predicted at Comdex 2001 that "a lot of people in the audience will be taking notes with those Tablet PCs" during the 2002 event. Not only was the launch of Tablet PC delayed, thus causing his prediction to fall flat on its face, but it looks unlikely to come true this year either.