First, pair your Surface Pen with your Surface Pro. You can do this manually too. Now, to open Cortana, hold down the top button pen for a second or so, then enter your question. Assuming you’re ...

Microsoft has just announced the addition of two new pens to its OneNote app on Windows: the Fountain Pen and the Brush Pen. These pens are designed to give users more ways to create handwritten notes ...

I’ve recently unboxed a brand new Surface 3 and Surface Pen, and was relieved to see that they survived the transcontinental trip they took to get to me. I could write with the Surface Pen, but for ...

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The concept is simple, even if the technology behind it is complicated: You write with a pen on paper, plug the pen into a computer, and have everything you’ve written converted into digital text.