Good reason Gates likes his Tablet

Seattle Times | at | by Mike

Not to be a name-dropper, but when Bill Gates spotted me recently at a news conference in Ann Arbor, Mich., his face broke into a big grin and he greeted me with something to the effect of "Hey, Mike, my favorite reporter!"

Alas, it wasn't my journalistic skills that brought the compliment. It was the machine I had, a Tablet PC. Gates loves it. He thinks it's one of the most innovative and useful things Microsoft has invented, even though it's been slow in taking off.