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Should your next computer have a touch screen?
By PHIL BAKER, Daily Transcript Technology Correspondent
Monday, October 19, 2009
When Microsoft introduced the tablet notebook eight years ago, Bill Gates heralded it as the future of computing. It would be used to take notes and translate them into text, let you read and annotate documents and books, and offer much more versatility than a laptop. In 2001, Gates predicted that within five years, "the tablet PC will be the most popular form of PC sold in America."

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Doug 10:03pm November 2, 2009

Back in the late 80s, Mitch Kapor started a company doing pen computers called Go Inc. Bill Gates didn't like that they would not use Windows and did a great job at destroying that companies future. As usual, Pen For Windows was a failure so pen computing didn't show back up until almost 10 years later. Apple, with the Newton, kept the original Kapor idea going in the small handheld format right before Palm took over in the later 90s. There's a book about it called "StartUp".

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