The technology was there, several years before the iPad I had a PC with a capacitive touchscreen. What Microsoft lacked was the insight to realize that just cr

The technology was there, several years before the iPad I had a PC with a capacitive touchscreen. What Microsoft lacked was the insight to realize that just cramming a touchscreen and stylus on Windows XP wouldn't work. Apple, perhaps with the hindsight of the Newton, realized that creating a completely new GUI optimized for finger touch was the way to go (or rather their experiments stemming from multi-touch trackpads showed them that it was _a_ way to go).