I am very glad Microsoft did that and I am praying that it is good. We use many wacom products at work from many categories and I always HATED them. They perform fine. They do what they are made for. But that’s about it. You can literally feel that they are the industry standard and are unbelievably lazy because of it. Just look at their cheap plastic housings, the detail, the clumsy ID, the cheapo plastic pens with wiggly buttons ugh…
I won’t complain because someone else bought that stuff for me/us and they do what they are supposed to do - but exactely that SHOWS. A proper cintiq runs you several thousand dollars. No consumer would shell out that amount of money for that pile of rubberized plastic.
Their tech is probably still better but I hope Microsoft just kicks their butt with their superior user experience.
Ever held the cintiq companion next to a surface? In direct comparison the companion feels like something out of the 90s.