As you flex your fingers in anticipation of tablet PCs such as the Acer TravelMate 100, remember one thing: the ball is in Microsoft's court. The company has retooled its Windows XP operating system ...

While other second generation convertible Windows XP Tablet PCs are priced at or over $2000, the Averatec C3500 sells for only $1350. What can you expect from a tablet that has such a low price? Quite ...

Second generation Windows XP Tablet models represent a vast improvement over manufacturers' first efforts. Take the Viewsonic PC V1250, which blows away most first generation tablets we've reviewed.

The HP Compaq TC1100 is only 10 years old, but in mobile computing years, it’s laughably archaic. Running Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, this device practically dared its owners to enter text without ...

ANAHEIM, CALIF. — In his keynote address yesterday at Microsoft Corp.’s Windows Hardware and Engineering Conference, Bill Gates, the company’s chairman and chief software architect, announced the ...

After nearly two years on the market, makers of tablet PCs based on Windows XP Tablet PC Edition have yet to prove that the pen is mightier than the keyboard. But manufacturers are hopeful that Tablet ...

After months of prelaunch publicity, Microsoft Corp. today unveiled its Windows XP Tablet Edition software, which enables users to write with a pen. But the question is, Will the product live up to ...

It is one of the most famous predictions in technology. At the 2001 Comdex show in Las Vegas, in front of an audience of 15,000 people, Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates described his vision for the ...

Windows Ink isn't Microsoft's first stab at bringing stylus support to PCs. That would be Windows for Pen Computing in the early '90s, followed by Windows XP Tablet Edition. But Ink is the company's ...

Tablet computing has a long and tortured evolution. We can trace its roots all the way back to 1915. That’s when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office awarded a patent for a handwriting recognition ...