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Microsoft has terrible pen technology for artists, still jittery slow lines years after it hurt the first Studio and other surface products.


This is sad consider they have been doing research on this for 15 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOvQCPLkPt4


Indicating that they could make it amazing if they wanted to, they just don't want to. Likely due to cost.


They organized their entire product line around premium artist products for the adobe cloud type spending professionals and it just doesn't work for them. It was a crazy strategy. They're still putting out new surfaces that have the same fundamental problem and burning their brand. They came out before Apple Pencil and made almost no improvement to it since then. Even the old windows ink laptops from the early 2000s had better stylus support (Wacom).




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