Windows XP Tablet PC Edition reviewed Its the best Windows yet. Will anyone use it? Since the dawn of the PC era, various companies have undertaken various initiatives to move computing away from keyboard and mousebased input and towards the more natural interfaces of pen and voice. And while voice computing has seen some limited success, pen computing is set to explode with the introduction of Microsofts Tablet PC platform, driven by a new Windows XP version logically named Windows XP Tablet PC Edition. Microsoft has been involved in the pen computing space since 1992, when its prototype WinPad devices were designed to run a special Windows 3.x version called Windows for Pen Computing. WinPad was destined for the dustbin of history, and in many ways it was a sobering reminder that the thencurrent PC designs were just too primitive to effectively scale into a portable form factor with long battery life. To counter this problem, Microsoft worked to convert its Windows OS to run on more efficient hardware platforms, and Windows CE Consumer Electronics was born. Codenamed Pegasus, the first Windows CE version provided a Windows 95like shell, and email, Internet, and Office application functionality, in a small, clamshelllike form factor that never really took off with users. A subsequent release, codenamed Griffin, aped the look and feel of the successful Palm Pilot, and a later release, dubbed Pocket PC, proved quite successful, especially with businesses.

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