Windows 7 Tablet PC Features: Multitouch Keyboards, Text Prediction and More
We’ve been yapping about on-screen touch keyboards of late, but let’s not forget our first love: ink! The Engineering Windows 7 Blog reminds us how easy it can be to ink in Windows by sharing all of the new and updated Tablet developments in Windows 7. I’ve already seen and made use of the new gesture “cheat sheet” animations, which come in handy when you’ve forgotten how to take action on some handwriting.
Microsoft has also incorporated smart word prediction, much like they have in their Windows Mobile platform. This feature is not only usable with text creation, but also comes into play with word correction as well: By changing one letter in a misrecognized word, the Tablet Input Panel will try to predict the word you intended. This reduces the number of characters you might have to re-ink.
The on-screen keyboard gains some additional functionality as well, not the least of which being support for multitouch. Yes, you can finally hold the Shift key plus another letter, for example. Of course, this assumes that your hardware is multitouch capable, and with these and other touch enhancements, I suspect that 2010 will bring multitouch to more portable devices.
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If you love ink then you’ll love Windows 7. The new inking engine leaves Vista’s in the dust and that was generally excellent.
I’ve found the recognition rate to be much closer to 100% in Windows 7 and the new gestures for splitting and combining words make it really quick to enter those odd words that you know won’t be recognised.
Completely agree. It’s been on my Q1UP since October of last year. Even though I don’t use that device much, the times I do offer a great ink experience.
I can’t wait to put Win7 on this Viliv S5 and experience that ink goodness.
And how about the TC1100? Any chance there?
Hi,
I am facing problem with usb datacard on windows 7 .Do you have any solution for that.I have installed all the drivers but still i get the message that modem drivers ar not installed.