Ink Handwriting recognition in one Note

[Erik Sojka]

I don't know where you are getting your information from. I've worked on
several books in 1998-2000 on Windows 2000. I never ever worked with
anyone who was an employee of or affiliated with Microsoft. I had access
to the well-publicised beta versions of the product (I still have beta
CDs where the product was called NT5) and I used those as the basis of
what I wrote.

I should also point out that in a former life I was a high level Windows,
AD and Exchange admin, and am good friends with a lot of the Exchange
MVPs. In all of the discussions over many a beer that I've had with
them, no one has ever mentioned being told to keep quiet about "bad
things" in the products. Not even in a "wink wink, I cannot tell you
why, but don't install patch_x because it doesn't work and I didn't just
tell you this wink wink" way.

You should learn a bit more about these things before commenting on them,
IMO.

 

[Ben M. Schorr, MVP-OneNote]

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I can understand an NDA preventing me from releasing information that
was only made available to me as a result of signing the NDA. However,
if an NDA prevented me from talking about a bug or design flaw I had
discovered in a product or beta that was publicly available then I
would consider it too imposing.

The NDA doesn't prohibit me from talking about bugs or flaws in products
or public betas. It only covers information gained under the cover of
the NDA such as confidential meetings, calls or pre-release software.
If Chris Pratley or one of his team e-mails me and tells me something,
as they occasionally do, it may or may not be covered under my NDA. If
I'm not sure, I'll ask and they'll tell me whether what they said was o.k.
to release to the public. If it's about the released product then they
usually say it's fine to share with others (and it sometimes ends up in
my FAQ). If it's about future releases that are not yet public then they
usually ask me to keep it confidential and I do.

 

[Paul]

What I was suggesting was something built in to Windows, so it is just a
case of plugging in the stick and hitting a start menu item to save all your
settings (including pertinent registry settings and files if you have stored
them somewhere other than documents and settings - e.g. in a coporate
environment your user dictionary and normal.dot file for Word should always
be on your personal network drive so they are not lost if your PC is
replaced/stolen/goes up in smoke).

Then - moving to another machine, plugging in the card and being prompted to
see if you want to log onto that macine as a guest using the settings on the
card.

I'm not looking for a work-around to do this myself. I am suggesting it as
the sort of simple, useful feature that would make using computers less of a
pain in the @rse for a lot of (not necessarily technical) people.

 

[Reid]

Has anyone tried installing the Tablet OS on a desktop? Perhaps that would
enable the Tablet OS-based handwriting recognition on a graphics tablet.
I'd hate to go through all the trouble to find out it doesn't work, but it
might be worth a try.

 

[Chris H.]

Do you have an MSDN subscription, Reid? If not, the only other place to get
the Tablet PC Edition superset which runs on Windows XP Pro is via an OEM
Tablet. Your experience with Ink on a desktop wouldn't be the same as on a
Tablet PC which has the digital screen.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
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[Reid]

But wouldn't OneNote then be using 'tablet ink' vs 'office ink' on the
desktop? That might at least be an improvement in and of itself. Not that
I wouldn't want the tablet as well.

Reid

 

[Erik Sojka]

It's a matter of the sampling speed of the devices in question. At the
time of the Tablet PC's development, normal external tablet pads did
produce enough "data" about the pen's movements to yield accurate
recognition results. Some of the newer external tablets may now be able
to produce enough data.

As Chris suggested, if you can get your hands on a legal copy of XPTE,
there's nothing stopping you from trying it out. Heck, let us know how
it goes!!