Due to my lack of time, and a limited market for the Tablet Information Manager product, I’ve decided to go back to just “TEO 2” for now. This just means that some of the extra features of TIM 2005 will be postponed or cancelled. These features include web views, integrated web server, integrated RSS reader, voice reminders, etc.
However, there’s alot of people out there that are still looking forward to TEO 2 and I apologize. I’ve explained on Tablet PC Buzz that the limited market and my limited ability to advertise means that I have to focus on things that bring in money. But I wouldn’t just leave my customers out in the cold. I’m determined to get this out as soon as I can, even if it means a reduced feature set.
A couple of things are going to be different than originally discussed. Aside from the missing features above, I’m going back to a more Outlook-style UI. Originally I wanted to be flashy, show off some creativity, and really distinguish the add-in from th rest of Outlook. However, it introduced some memory issues and an overall inconsistency in the look and feel.
I’ve also got a very cool new ink input concept in mind that will assist in ink entry without taking up alot of space.
Finally, the application will require Windows XP Service Pack 2. I understand it’s alot to ask of customers to download and install a 150+ MB service pack but believe me, this is no ordinary service pack. I think everyone needs to install SP2 and the benefits on a Tablet PC are so great that I need to make it a prereq. Hopefully Microsoft will be doing their part to distribute this on physical media to people without broadband.
So that’s that. I hate to keep making excuses for its delay but hopefully soon I will be able to divide my time a little more evenly.