NY Times: "From the late 1980's through the mid-90's, one software company after another, from start-ups like the Go Corporation to giants like Microsoft, pursued the same vision: a computer that would take its orders from a pen. And one after another they failed, sometimes infamously. Now Microsoft is betting that the time and the technology have arrived." Maybe it has...but why is this such a great thing? I can tell you that if handwriting recognition was perfect, and I could input data with a pen as fast as I could write, I'd be several times slower (and less comfortable) than with a keyboard. Sure, it'd be nice on handhelds and such, and there are people who write more easily than they type, but it's not the holy grail of computing, as is so often implied -- oh wait, that's speech recognition.