From the innovation view of Tablet PC

Microsoft on November 7, in the United States promoting a handwritten pen input based on the personal computing platform ━ ━ Tablet PC. December 2,, Microsoft held in Beijing promotion ceremony Tablet PC. Microsoft says the first Tablet PC will rewrite history, was a landmark revolution, less than a month, Microsoft in China shifted to not say revolution, but said innovation. Manufacturers and users for the new product, JiaoHaoZhe have replaced the notebook: the future not 2 choice; Watch the good prospect is:. Despite these first to the prediction of the future trends of the Tablet PC, we only see the Tablet PC this product, see what it was to a industry innovation, or innovation, also or neither.

Relative to the desktop PC and laptop computers, Tablet PC is a kind of new products. Microsoft said the Tablet PC ten major characteristics: the most advanced operating system (Windows XP Tablet PC edition), extended use PC way neuroscience (Win XP Tablet PC edition will paper and pen merger in PC), provide mobile PC platform function, create, and handwritten notes, convenient and effective organization work, the user experience with personalized, ink and the application of the easy to expand the user configuration and management, to provide global business solutions, for the key data provide highest level of protection. These are the Tablet PC with place, for the present computer industry, Tablet PC, have these features is supposed to mean??????? The industry is a kind of innovation? Or is a product of the innovation?

Before answering this question, we should first make clear the innovation and innovation, where is the different.

Management gurus drucker argued that in an industry that has the following within four might have an innovative opportunity: unexpected events (the unexpected produce new demand, promoting produce innovation opportunity), cannot be coordinated contradiction (to solve a contradictory process field bring innovation), the difficulty in the process (a industry the smooth flow to bring innovation), industry and market changes, industrial structure and the change of the market to bring innovation opportunity). For example, in order to solve the phone business busy need a lot of problems, the operator developed automatic connecting a AT&T, solve the phone the difficulty in the business process.

Based on the above four kind of opportunity "innovation", is not people usually are talking about innovation, generally called innovation, because they have little can form or drive a new industry ability, general does not have the meaning of the landmark. Really a landmark of innovation, new knowledge is the basis of revolutionary innovation.

The innovation of knowledge based not only need a long period, but also need to DuoGe brewing in the field of knowledge common progress. A knowledge based innovation, which involved the wider field of knowledge and its effects will become. The most influential of the successful example is the invention of the computer. The invention of the computer include at least the following six aspects of knowledge: binary mathematics, computing machines concept, a punch card, transistor, and symbolic logic, procedures and the concept of feedback. Driven by the computer industry is probably the world's largest industry. Another example is the invention of the Ethernet. The invention of the Ethernet from several main aspects of the accumulation of knowledge: in 1946 the invention of electronic computers, 1947 1958 the invention of the transistor, the invention of the integrated circuit, 1963 ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, ASCII) coding founded, in 1965 the first built, WAN term "hypertext" was first introduced, 1970 to establish a ALOHA Net (at a rate of 4.8 Kbps, which laid the foundation for Ethernet). Now have dominated the global Ethernet LAN more than 90% of the market share, forming a nearly $0.1 trillion every year of the massive industry.

Combining with the above innovation and innovation to the discussion, we'll come back to see Microsoft force holds the Tablet PC for the computer industry is the revolutionary innovation, or a kind of innovation, or neither.

Microsoft says Tablet PC products collect DuoZhong advanced technology at a suit, it removed the keyboard and mouse, replaced by a handwritten input and speech input, Bill Gates with "with the most natural way realization man-machine interaction" to describe the Tablet PC input way for desktop PC and laptop PC's revolutionary. In fact handwritten input recognition technology has come out close to 20 years, but the technology but it has not in the consumer market popularity to open, and is the main reason not to use, identification accuracy is not satisfying. Windows XP Tablet PC Edition of Western Europe text recognition rate is a little bit higher, and for Western Europe is much more complicated than words of Chinese characters and identification accuracy, low, believe that used to this PDA's experience of it. Relative to the handwritten input, voice recognition of the accuracy of the input is more serious. Speech input technology the appearance of the time also has a DuoNian, compared with the other input methods, it's not afraid is the highest degrees.

Tablet PC another change is its digital ink function. Tablet PC is based on electronic touch screen and digital ShuRuBi above, the user can use digital pen the touch screen write any stroke, according to the movement of handwriting touch screen to decide, like the traditional ink that will handwriting showed on the screen, or will the write about cross into a row standard text font, this text can be posted in Outlook, Excel and Word. This new function? No, is also the old. The user input, if handwritten input handwriting recognition in the library can be found, the recognition to the corresponding text; Otherwise as to deal with the image. This, of course, the user's handwriting can be preserved. The same function of electronic board came out early put into use. In addition, users for from the application of handwriting wi have DuoDa use? In addition, the signature in the commercial activity, no one will take time to identify your script writing. The rest of the little advantage is that can practice calligraphy, the question is: to practice again good, also just Tablet PC on it.

Tablet PC two major technology is not innovative, there exists the problem is not new. Tablet PC "human machine interaction" input methods has been Microsoft to stand, but only on this count, it not only is not good, and many problems. Can you imagine the left hand holding a 2 kg "book", with the right hand writing, continuous work an hour in the house? Notepad is too heavy, and may also hot (left and right hand are hot may), pen fluently (for recognition rate is not high, so can't write quickly, can't write too scribbled), placed inconvenience (flat on the knee or the table will reflect light, look not clear display content, must use a hand, or with special brackets; acer's C100 is an exception, but it is only at most Tablet PC's transitional), LCD, easy to wear safety problems, and so on. The Tablet PC "human-computer interaction" manner, while the machine to is not high. Remove the keyboard and mouse, change handwritten input is to pay a certain consideration, handwritten recognition need a lot of operation, the machine that consumed a lot of system resources, but the machine performance is reduced. At the same time, Tablet PC to omit report, extend battery time in hardware configuration, still use mobile CPU P3, and mainstream notebook PC has widespread use of the mobile CPU to mp4.

About here, we can see, Tablet PC products in technology and innovation in new bottled without, old wine, even the problems are not new. Evaluation of a new product is the innovation, the key industry is whether it DuoZhong organically mix the technology as a whole, and not all kinds of technology of simple accumulation; Also see it can develop new fields of application, can change people production way of life. The invention of the computer is not a punch card, transistor, and symbolic logic of such as simple accumulation; Ethernet is not ASCII coding, transistor, ALOHA Net of accumulation; As a great innovation, computer and Ethernet greatly changed people production way of life. Compared with the notebook PC, Tablet PC just changed the way, it may have input the meaning of it, but that he said it will rewrite history, is an epoch-making revolution, and so on, it is exaggerated. On the computer industry, and the emergence of the Tablet PC, even innovation is not. The computer industry is no provides four might have an innovation opportunities of any a kind of (accident, cannot be coordinated conflicting, process the difficulty, the industry and the market change), the computer industry is in a mature development. Facing the perpetrator of the hype, we want to stay awake.