Software development industry analysis by Larry O'Brien, the former editor of Software Development and Computer Language
Friday, September 19, 2003

All the Tablet bloggers are pitching in ideas for Microsoft's internal Power Toys competition (it's so easy to think of software). Loren's suggested a "snap on dwell" tool and Peter a "pen scrolling tool." So my suggestion is that if you can't pull off a fully customizable and skinnable tablet input panel (which, by the way, ought to have pen-friendly keyshapes):

...and you hate radial context menus...

... then can't you at least see that we need an IE toolbar with an ink-enabled address combobox?

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