Eric Rice says Vista on the Tablet PC rocks!

Eric Rice is the long-time Mac aficionado who picked up a Toshiba Tablet PC last year and just couldn’t put it down.  Now he has put Vista beta 2 on the Tablet and is using words like "drool", "love", "killer", well you get the picture.  Here’s a brief quote from his musings:

The user experience is killer– I can select multiple items, since hovering over desktop icons allows me to click a checkbox, making it easy to copy/move/delete multiple items. There’s a very subtle touch feedback on the screen when i’ve clicked on something (reminds me of Apple’s water droplets). And whatever changed with handwriting recognition (for the better) simply rocks. I have handwriting so bad, I’m a certified medical doctor, and have had little errors in scrawling messages quickly in an environment like Skype. Right-clicking and holding has improved as well…

One final note that has nothing to do with UI or architecture… it seems to me that Microsoft did spend a good deal of time listening to users–not just the mom and dads of the world, but also to us tech-types. Now, let’s see if they can keep it up.

-jk

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