Behold the SONICblue ProGear.
Released in 2000, it had a 10.4" touch screen, and was powered by a low-power Transmeta processor. It ran Linux.
Pardon me but this is akin to saying that the Phoenicians or the Irish deserve credit for the American Economy because they landed some sailors on the East Coast a while back. Microsoft lives for it's corporate installed base and for its XBox360 franchises and solid innovation comes from elsewhere.
Between 2002 and 2010 there was plenty of time and talent up there in the Northwest to bring a superior product to the fore, but Microsoft was the proverbial Elephant tripping all over its little Vista problem. To expect this ponderous pachyderm to suddenly become dextrous is a mirage in the distance. Maybe some day MS will wake up but this long-time shareholder has moved on to Apple and my options are doing very well indeed!
Just a bit of M$ trivia, but they had a W3.1 version for tablet PC’s in the early 90’s.
“Windows for Pen Computing
Main article: Windows for Pen Computing
Windows for Pen Computing was a series of Microsoft-produced add-ons for Microsoft Windows versions in the mid-1990s with additional tools for tablet PCs. Windows for Pen Computing (also known as Pen Windows and W4PC) was developed as Microsoft’s Pen computing response to the PenPoint OS by GO Corporation[7]. Windows for Pen Computing was rendered obsolete by the Tablet PC support for Windows XP Tablet PC Edition in 2002.”
Somewhere I have a copy of that puppy.
Behold the SONICblue ProGear.
Released in 2000, it had a 10.4" touch screen, and was powered by a low-power Transmeta processor. It ran Linux.