Thursday, November 07, 2002

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Internetnews : Microsoft partners showcaseTablet PC offerings Groove's first offering for the Tablet PC is a digital ink-enabled chat tool for its Groove Workspace. The product combines Groove's security collaboration environment wth the Tablet's PC's ink capabilities. The combination allows a Tablet PC user to use the Tablet PC pen to make an on-screen sketch and then share it with colleagues.

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Groove Networks announces Groove Workspace Ink Chat tool for Microsoft XP Tablet PC edition.

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Hugh Pyle : Tablet is really quite important, in an incremental way (which is why I think it may succeed where others have failed). Of course one of Microsoft's great strengths is in lowering "transition cost", making disruptive changes more palatable; with the Tablet edition of XP, ink arrives incrementally. Already there are signs of some really good applications; vertical solutions for healthcare, of course, but also some fun games and demonstrators. And Groove. Groove is such a good fit to the platform.