Digital inking isn't new to Windows, but Microsoft's integrating it throughout its products and services positions it as a first-class personal computing input modality.
Apple's former CEO, the late Steve Jobs, mocked the stylus as an inferior input tool as he touted fingers as the most natural form of UI interaction. There's merit to his statement. Microsoft's all-out commitment to touch throughout its Surface hardware family indicates Redmond gets that.
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