Foreword
Who would have thought that writing in digital ink on a computer display could be as satisfying as the real thing?
Well, I knew it could, but I wasn’t sure when, if ever, it would become a feature of Microsoft Windows. Now it’s happening, and Rob Jarrett and Philip Su were right there at the center of the activity that made it so.
When you stroke your pen across a page of Windows Journal, you’re experiencing digital ink the way Rob and Philip and I think it was meant to be. Quick. Smooth. Colorful. Expressive. Strokes with these qualities help you remember what you were thinking when you wrote them. They naturally capture your thoughts, making your personal computer quite a bit more personal.
Digital ink—now a first-class data type—is just ...
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