In article , srd152000
@yahoo.com says...

A) I think Patrick will live through the ordeal.

Heard back from MS: "Thank you for the feedback, this issue has a
potentially large impact and will be evaluated for consideration beyond
the beta timeframe."
In plain English: This is MS's catch-all message for issues that they
recognize as such, but won't fix for 2007.

Patrick Schmid
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http://pschmid.net

"Grant Robertson" BOGUS.com> wrote in message
news:uShqpSipGHA.4932@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl:

Thanks for your effort, Patrick.

Too bad!
I menawhile fell over quite a larger number of similar issues where
one is helpless without a keyboard.

This and the overall usage of the "task aerea" (sorry, don't know the
English term) instead of the space saving dialogs makes me think that
the develpoers' and Quality Assurance teams did not really base there
concepts and their tests on TabletPCs as a major field of concern.

Any responsable person being tied to exclsusively using a "slate"
would have stumbled over only too many areas where the concept goes
half way only [siiiigh]

Rainald

Patrick Schmid nospam.pschmid.net> shared these words of
wisdom:

It is disingenuous to say as you did that someone is "pretending" that
something is a certain way, unless you are more than "pretty sure" it was
their position. Don't make false accusations of pretense and expect not to
be called on it. No, I don't respect your time that much that I would
excuse your conduct because you are short of it (something I hardly
believe, any way, given the volume of your posting).

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:33:16 -0700, Grant Robertson bogus.com>
wrote:

It's unfortunate, but over time you get really used to this response. I
stopped counting how many of my 300+ submissions where closed with that
resolution. In the beginning of the beta, I got really annoyed by it. By
now, I just accept it and move on. I simply don't have the time nor
willpower to fight that resolution for the 100 or so times I probably
have seen it....

Couldn't you bring up the on-screen keyboard?

ON is mainly used not on TabletPCs (20% or something like that are
tabletPC users if I remember the numbers from a blog post correctly).
However, if you have a tabletpc, you are almost certainly going to use
ON...