There’s a screen shot photograph on Paul Thurott’s SuperSite for Windows that shows a Pen Optimized Skin for Longhorn-era Tablet PCs. This skin is designed for potential future Tablet PCs running 5-8 inch screens. As you can see, this will be quite similar to the Pocket PC today screen and thus could consolidate the Pocket PC’s OS as part of Longhorn. Either that, or future Windows CE based Pocket PCs will become much smaller, in which case their user interface will have to adjust better to the potential future screen sizes. Personally, I think the Pen Optimized skin for Longhorn looks like it will be very good. I hope application developers can make programs compatible with such screen sizes. Maybe some tablet PCs will have integrated mobile phones as well.
Originally published on Pocketnow on May 24, 2004. More Thought articles from the Pocketnow archive.