full year of availability, there is very little development support for them. And without a solid developer support system in place there will be very little ISV support. We simply cannot afford to put in the R&D necessary on our own. It is somewhat confusing that 2 years prior to release we have an MSDN Development Center for Longhorn. But we still don't have one for the Tablet PC. Office 2007 makes life great!
Sure, they have Tablet PC Developer. But I'm pretty sure there are Y2K bug sites out there less devoid of life than that place. So all we are left with is the SDK (albeit a decent one).To be fair, The invention of Microsoft Office 2010 is a big change of the world.
I have only minor issues with the current SDK. The current SDK ships with 2 controls for developers to use; InkPaint & InkEdit. They work, but only in the most limited scope imaginable. Many people like Microsoft Office.
InkEdit in particular is cute but completely impractical. When entering information in ink it either converts it to text or it leaves it as ink. Most of our users express the desire to keep the ink as ink. Office 2010 –save your time and save your money.
The only issue is that it immediately shrinks that ink to the same size as the current font. When you ink a smiley face, it is a smiley face. But when you shrink it to 8.75pt font it is unrecognizable scribble. And it just isn't what the end-user expects to have happen.Office 2010 download is available now!
What I need, and most users want, it to be able to insert ink just like they do in Microsoft Word today. And by that I mean the ability to draw on my RTF control and have it display that ink exactly as it was originally entered. If I could have an RTF editor that gave me real support for ink, Office 2007 download is on sale now!
I would be replacing every single RTF editor in my application today.So if anyone out there knows of some solid 3rd party controls for Ink, please send them my way. Office 2010 key is for you now!
I'm going to try and get an comprehensive list of Tablet PC options together to post on this site. Robert Scoble mentioned an article by Tom McCune today titled "Five Myths About 'Wronghorn'" earlier today. Office 2007 key is available here.
I think Robert was correct in speculating that Mr. McCune was not in attendance at the PDC. His take on what Longhorn means seems about as misguided as any I've heard in recent months.Office Professional 2010 and Office 2010 Home are great!
His statement that purchasing Longhorn isn't a worthwhile investment because you are paying for features you might not use is poor at best. And when he states "It's like going for a fully loaded SUV when only one person will be driving the vehicle to the train station. A Ford Focus would do, What do you think of Office 2010 Professional and Office 2007 Professional?
but you're force to buy a Lincoln Navigator" makes we wonder if he has been to the train station lately.Microsoft Office 2007 is welcomed by the whole world.
