Tablet PC Makers Embrace a Dying Art: Handwriting "How paradoxical, then, that at a time when handwriting is in such decline, the computer industry is making a new push to embrace it. Led by Microsoft's development of the Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system, hardware makers like Acer, ViewSonic and Fujitsu are this year releasing tablet PC's, laptop-like devices that permit users to write directly on the screen with a stylus and then manipulate the handwritten text."