PDC + Mobile PC & Tablet PC + Windows Vista Part 2
Finally!! PDC is over, and I've caught up with the back log of work that piled while I was at PDC. Our PDC was great!
- Our Hands On Labs (HOLs) were consistently full, we depleted our supply of digitizers/USB-drives/TMobile cards in the process since it was so popular
- Our sessions went well too, lots of folks turned up to listen to Mobile PC & Tablet PC related sessions although it was past 17:00
- Birds of a feather meetings - lots of candid and honest exchange of opinions which are always insightful for us attending from the Microsoft side
- I personally talked with about 100 folks from different companies, although I was only able to keep track of about 40 of them
I am confident that we've rid the speculation that Microsoft is not investing in Mobile PC & Tablet PCs any more ... on the contrary we are ACCELERATING in Vista and beyond. It is a ripe market with a lot of upsell potential. The sky is the limit on the benefit it can have on me as a casual user of PCs. I am really looking forward to the coming year, lots of innovative hardware and great advances in software is coming.
http://spaces.msn.com/members/michaellatta/Blog/cns!1p_9Q1UgKXcCjgsYODghdXCQ!160.entry is an example of feedback we're already starting to get ... please keep them coming as we're keen on listening to your thoughts.
Additionally, we're really interested to hear your thoughts on the takeaways we had at the Birds of a feather meetings.
- we can accelerate the Tablet PC business with more reusable software components (eg controls) that would help in creation of innovative new scenarios & applications
- there are hard user interaction problems such as ink in text boxes where the eco-system can benefit from examples and recommendations from Microsoft
We're starting to brain storm and take action against this feedback - your thoughts would be appreciated to further direct us on our way.
Koji Kato - Platform Lead Program Manager - Tablet PC
