MICROSOFT LAUNCHES A NEW COMPUTER
In the company of Bill Gates assured that their handheld computer will give the ability to download information in several ways: the data can be typed with the arrow keys, and a writing process as smart screen is able to recognize handwriting.
It is expected that the new Tablet PC will be presented to the public in two versions.
Computer one modification looks like a conventional lap-top, but the screen can be rotated so that the user can write on it, as in the ordinary paper. Another kind of Tablet PC is different from the first in that it smart screen is separate from the keyboard and system unit.
Computers Tablet PC can be used in hospitals
Both versions use the new program Windows Journal, allow users to either store the information entered into the computer in handwritten form or convert your handwriting into text. The program can distinguish between hundreds of options handwriting. However, the first time Windows Journal can learn to 60-80% of the written word, and as you get used to the characteristics of the style by percentage will grow.
On launch day in the UK Tablet users will be able to test new handheld computers, made by several companies - Fujitsu, Toshiba, Acer, HewlettPackard and Research Machines - and using wireless technology Bluetooth.
This is a replacement to traditional lap-topu, and not an addition to it, - said Neil Laver, one of the managers of Microsoft in the UK.
According Lavera, a major plus Tablet PC is that it can be used in situations where the use of the keyboard is impossible. However, now, Microsoft is warning that users will have to wait before the new system will operate without interruption.
Microsoft#39;s new brainchild has already found application not only at the level of ordinary people. Graduation Ceremony of the Tablet PC for the mass market does not take place by chance in a London hospital: in the company of Bill Gates believe that the ability to enter handwritten information into the computer speed up the completion of hospital charts and will help in some surgical operations.
Cost Tablet PC initially scare potential buyers, both at the individual and at the corporate level. The novelty is about 3 thousand dollars. It is much more expensive than conventional lap-top and even more highly popular handheld computers.
Before Microsoft is not an easy task - in the past several attempts to combine in different ways to a Pocket PC input fails. In 1998, Apple abandoned the project Newton, and IBM - from Crosspad.
