Editing Windows for Pen Computing (section)

{{Short description|Software suite for Windows 3.1 for pen computing}}
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{{Infobox software
| name = Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing
| logo = Windows for Pen Computing boot screen.png
| logo alt = Logo of Microsoft Windows for Pen Computing version 1.0
| screenshot =
| caption =
| author = [[Microsoft]]
| developer = Microsoft
| released = 1992 as Microsoft Windows 3.1 for Pen Computing 1.0
| latest release version = Microsoft Windows 95 for Pen Computing 2.0
| latest release date = 1995
| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| operating system = [[Microsoft Windows]]
}}

'''Windows for Pen Computing''' is a [[software suite]] for [[Windows 3.1x]], that [[Microsoft]] designed to incorporate [[pen computing]] capabilities into the Windows [[Operating environment#Computing|operating environment]]. Windows for Pen Computing was the second major pen computing platform for [[x86]] [[Tablet computer|tablet PC]]s; [[GO Corporation]] released their [[operating system]], [[PenPoint OS]], shortly before Microsoft published Windows for Pen Computing 1.0 in 1992.<ref name="pencomputingmag">{{cite web
| url = http://www.pencomputing.com/developer/pen_extensions.html
| title = Pen Computing and Windows 95
| author = Lisa Stampfli
| publisher = [[Pen Computing Magazine]]
| date = December 1995
| access-date = May 6, 2008
}}</ref><ref>{{citation 
| title = [[Barbarians Led by Bill Gates]]
| author =[[Marlin Eller]] and Jennifer Edstrom | publisher = Owl Books
| date = 1998
}}</ref>

The software features of Windows for Pen Computing 1.0 includes an [[on-screen keyboard]], a notepad program for writing with the [[Stylus (computing)|stylus]], and a program for training the system to respond accurately to the user's [[handwriting]]. Microsoft included Windows for Pen Computing 1.0 in the [[Windows SDK]], and the operating environment was also bundled with compatible devices.

Microsoft published [[Windows 95]] in 1995, and later released Pen Services for Windows 95,<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.pencomputing.com/developer/pen_services.html
| title = Pen Services for Windows 95
| author = Scott Griepentrog
| publisher = [[Pen Computing Magazine]]
| date = August 1996
| access-date = February 16, 2017
}}</ref> also known as Windows for Pen Computing 2.0, for this new [[operating system]]. [[Windows XP editions#Tablet PC Edition|Windows XP Tablet PC Edition]] superseded Windows for Pen Computing in 2002. Subsequent [[List of Microsoft Windows versions|Windows versions]], such as [[Windows Vista]] and [[Windows 7]], supported pen computing intrinsically.