Why Microsoft's digital inking strategy may be a win for the company

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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.

Touch interaction with our digital devices is so pervasive that my toddler sometimes touches the television screen expecting Netflix to respond. Ironically Apple stubbornly resists bringing touch to the Mac and MacBook having conceded a mere touch strip on the Macbook.

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