

They're not major features for most users, but if you need them they'll be very useful – and they're exactly the kind of tricky features that would likely have been cut from a new version of Windows during the development cycle because they were hard to get right in a fixed schedule. We're also getting lots of new display options: picture-in-picture display, being able to project your screen to another PC from a Continuum phone or another PC, plus remote display from an IoT Core device for remote control. And you will be able to use pen and touch at the same time, so you can move an on-screen ruler – which could be something as complex as a curve tool in Illustrator – as you draw, or scroll the canvas without putting down the pen in your other hand. That will make the new Ink system more useful – it works with Cortana so you can write 'remind me next Monday to call Susan' and get a reminder on that day. Microsoft's deal with Wacom to build a pen that will work across multiple PC screens (using the built-in digitiser rather than just capacitive touch) should bring pens to many more laptops and tablets.

Microsoft is promising ink and pens on far more computers Pen-tastic plans
