All not well in Tablet PC land as Acer complaints continue
WinNetMag | at | by Mike
A year after the debut of Microsoft's innovative Tablet PC platform, the software giant is keeping an upbeat tone despite slow sales, thanks to a powerful new hardware platform that will erase past performance and battery life issues and a new version of the Tablet PC software--Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2004, codenamed Lonestar--that fixes the few niggling technical issues with the original software. But a growing rift between the hardware makers that create the Tablet PCs and software-maker Microsoft may escalate into the biggest threat to the handwriting-capable systems. This week, PC maker Acer, one of the original Tablet PC makers, reiterated charges that Microsoft isn't doing enough to drive the Tablet PC market forward.