Tablet PCs draw a rousing welcome

Top vendors Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba say sales of their tablet PCs--tiny portable computers fitted with pens, touch screens and handwriting-recognition technology--are exceeding predictions made before the devices' November launch. The machines are based on Microsoft's Windows XP Tablet PC Edition software.

So many skeptics about the introduction of this Microsoft product. And now...silence of the lame.