Microsoft Whiteboard is now generally available for Windows

So, it's Microsoft Paint.

Saw this sometime back before the Surface Go was announced, and once that announcement was made it made a lot more sense for me. I have not yet fully tried it though. I am waiting to get a Surface Pen to see just how good those things can be on a Surface Book 2. I do like the idea of digital notes that I can 'scribble' myself.

Effective distributed whiteboarding, etc. is something that the tech industry has been dithering with for decades and nothing has ever seemed to quite click. It feels that, with relatively inexpensive tablets [ADDED: and almost affordable big screen touchscreens], maybe we'll actually converge on something interesting.

so basically multiplayer MS paint? heck, it's a good idea!

This is great, and I am happy Microsoft has put forth a great product to fulfill collaborative white boarding on their platform. Microsoft has been supporting of digital convas technology for a long time, which was finally streamline in the inkcanvas control in WPF over a decade ago.

This solution from Microsoft has been floating around the education sector for sometime already by Dyknow, a small company HQ'd in Indiana. Curious if this firm's tech was bought out or just copied.