Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Feb 2008 22:20 UTC
Ken Hinckley from Microsoft Research has unofficially put together a prototype Tablet PC note-taking application designed and built from ground up around the pen. InkSeine (rhymes with 'insane'), which gives you the ability to easily search the web or your local computer directly from your ink. Although it's scheduled for a public release on February 15, 2008, Microsoft insists that it is not intended for public consumption: "InkSeine is a research demonstration only, and is not a Microsoft product, nor is it intended to become a product. It is just something we built as a pure research project to explore novel pen and ink functionality."
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Member since:2006-02-05
MS Research is very different from their open source stuff. Research is to come up with ideas to use in other products. Open source is used to help strengthen existing developer communities around their platform products. MS doesn't open source anything for reasons other then that.
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2006-09-01
Ok, so how about open sourcing it on codeplex under the MS-RL, MS-PL, or one of the limited equivalents? Probably wishful thinking, but wouldn't this kind of thing, and maybe the powertoys, be the kind of image enhancing thing they are looking for? Aren't they talking about creating a open source software ecosystem around Windows?
Anyway, this is just some random questions. I guess we'll find out more when the thing is released in a couple of days.
Also, here is the actual homepage with more information.
http://research.microsoft.com/users/kenh/InkSeine/