Tablet PC Bug Fills Computer With Ink
The Register has a good piece on a bug that floods a tablet PC's memory until it conks out. Here's what they said: "The culprit is the application Tabtip.exe, the site Tablet PC Talk confirms - The program Tabtip.exe increases in size due to a memory leak. It starts out at approximately 10MB. I have seen it zoom up to over 150MB after a couple of weeks of suspend/resume.

"So figuratively speaking, the computer fills up with ink - until it can take no more. Tabtip.exe is quite an important application - it's the built-in ink digitizer responsible for handwriting recognition. Without it, you must buy and install a third-party recognition software, or plug in a keyboard. This bug isn't new. Users first discovered it last spring, and even patched together a crude batch file which killed and restarted the ink-continent digitizer process. But it's been causing much more ire of late, with fans furious Microsoft won't so much as acknowledge the issue."

Of course my take is that there aren't enough tablet PCs in the world for Microsoft to bother doing anything, but that will unleash the angry hoards of tablet zealots who jeered and called me names the last time I dissed a tablet.


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