Vista – Part 2
by Chris on Aug.29, 2006, under Computers, Tablet PC, Technology, Windows
So you may know, or may not know, that I have a tablet PC. I love my tablet, and I love it even more now that it has Vista on it. The new onscreen keyboard is great. You can see it hiding in the screenshot of my desktop in the last post. I’ll point it out for you just in case:
It likes to hide most of the time. It casts a small shadow on the desktop and is bearly noticable. When you hover your mouse over it though, it pops out and looks like this:
Then when you click it, it slides out from it’s nice little hiding place. If you have ever used XP Tablet edition then you’ll know how annoying the little popup writing area is. Half the time it pops up somewhere you don’t want it to, or it docks to the top or bottom of the screen automatically and just causes problems. So here’s what the new one looks like:
I really like the drop shadow on it. My machine doesn’t support Areo 
so these little things make me feel like I’m not using XP anymore. Having used XP since Beta 1, all those years ago, I’m a little sad to see it go, but on the other hand I’m glad that I’m going to get to play with yet another one of Microsofts creations. Hopefully this one will be better than the last.
