Microsoft is keeping their secret weapon tightly under wraps. Surface "pro", not yet released, will give all users ability to handwrite on any screen that appears on your phone, tablet, PC etc.. It is new technology developed and highly patented by Microsoft. Microsoft partnered with Samsung two years ago to test and develop this technology on Samsung's hardware ( tablets) as they did with the Galaxy phone. Notice more and more ads for computer hardware and apps showing pens and handwriting. Microsoft is still keeping their perfection of this under wraps. Watch this stock soar over 2 yrs coming. Microsoft retail stores, Microsoft hardware- phones, tablets, PCs etc.. They are one smart company. They have purposefully lagged behind Apple while they secretly develop new hardware and software technology that can not be copied due to their expertise in patenting licensing and partnerships with other companies ( partnerships with expiration dates, yet collecting royalties along the way). They have cleverly controlled their competition- purchasing cloud services, android services....... Again, they are cleverly keeping their secret weapon under wraps yet preparing to rule the market- cell phone, tablets, PCs etc.. It's all brand new touch screen technology involving handwriting storage and retrieval. Those skeptics who are reading this might pause for a second and look around their house, office, classroom, car and notice that pen and paper is still a part of your life (any handwritten notes around you still? Is there a pen or pad in your house or office still?).
Microsoft's future, patented products will eliminate the need for pen and paper and will restore literacy to America. Literacy: "the ability to read and write". Handwriting is becoming a lost art that Microsoft has recognized will not go unnoticed by educators (all schools). Restoring literacy to America, by Microsoft. Look at the handwriting of our well educated youth who have learned to type with expertise. They (many of us) have become "typists". And millions and millions of people worldwide are not great typists (the 30+ age group). Either way, Microsoft can't loose by supplying the world with and owning the market on computer devices that will allow the user to type or "handwrite" (pen or finger) on any screen and most importantly save it and retrieve it, even by handwriting in your search box, without converting your handwriting to text. This is new technology that has taken Microsoft years to develop and protect. (handwrite or jot down a note on an email, underline or highlight a document, add a signature anywhere, circle something you forward to someone: social media- circle someone in a group photo, adding a handwritten name or joke next to the circled item you want others to see. Only Microsoft has recognized that, yes, we still use pen and paper and yes we circle, highlight, add our notes, signatures to documents etc and forever will. Present technology does not allow us to directly handwrite on anything that appears on our screen and save it just like we do with type. Computer generated handwritten documents presently have to be transferred before being stored and frequently get lost for those of you who have followed the re-emergence of handwriting capabilities on computers over the last several years.
Filling out a form on a computer- an electronic purchase- Type in name address DOB, etc.. Microsoft's new technology will enable us to write in the boxes or type- no difference. No difference is the secret that Microsoft has been working on- who would not want this option. It's brand new technology and Microsoft will not release it until they perfect it. However Microsoft is preparing (retail stores and Microsoft hardware all of a sudden?). They are smart, opening what will appear to be going out of business or low end temporary holiday retail stores this year as they pick locations for their future permanent retail stores, as they perfect their products. Watch Microsoft. Their plan is not just to enter the hardware market. Come on, it's Microsoft. They plan on ruling the Market (cell phone, tablet, PC etc.. Microsoft TV's next? ( handwrite with your finger on your remote or type. Nice to have the option). Offering the user the option to do either is what Microsoft is capitalizing on, while Microsoft's competitors (APPLE?) has failed to recognize could conceivably put them out of business or hopefully for Apple investors, force them to join forces ( A buy out possibly ) with Microsoft, down the road. Presently MICROSOFT is not sharing their future plans with anyone so to the uninformed observer it would appear that Microsoft is making a last ditch effort to catch up with their arch-rival and biggest competitor, Apple, without much success. Their smart, MICROSOFT, and VERY VERY COMPETITIVE. So smart, that they are purposefully allowing their stock to drop, as Microsoft insiders cleverly and carefully buy up shares themselves without driving up the price of the stock.
How do I know all of this? Well I spent eight months working with Microsoft engineers and developers on all of the above. I estimated that it would take two to three years to perfect this technology. By June 2013 or sooner expect to see Microsoft stock soar.
Again for all of you skeptics, I have one question for you to ask yourself. Do you use pen and paper still? If yes, think about Microsoft entering the hardware market like they've never done before and pull up a video demonstration of their surface "PRO" tablet, pen attached to side mount. Pull up a demo of the handwriting capabilities (thickness of screen etc- not easy to find) of Microsoft's Surface PRO and you decide for yourself- New technology STILL in the works, licensing agreements, patents etc.. It's Microsoft, folks. Don't let their holiday kiosk stores fool you. With what they are sitting on, technologically, Microsoft can afford to lag behind Apple and almost appear to be the schleps because Microsoft knows that they have and own the technology to rule the market in the near future and possibly put Apple out of business.
KM