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The first new feature is the "Ink Workspace." Tapping the top of the pen on a Surface Pro brings up a new panel with common pen apps. In the demo, large tiles were reserved for Sticky Notes, Sketchpad, and Screen Sketch, along with a smaller set of tiles for "recently used" apps. At the bottom of the panel is a "Suggested" section, which promotes pen apps from the Windows Store. The promotion of pen apps is another upgrade to the Windows 10 ecosystem—there's now a dedicated section for apps that support styluses.

Sticky Notes can now be used to feed reminders into Cortana. In the demo, writing "Call mom tomorrow" caused "tomorrow" to be highlighted, and tapping on the word brought up Cortana to set a reminder. Bing is integrated, too, so sticky notes will be able to recognize places and link to maps.

A new "Sketchpad" app focuses on Ink, but it wasn't covered much in the demo. The whole ink platform now supports a ruler tool that can be moved around while using the pen. It works like a ruler in real life, causing nearby drawings to "snap" to the ruler. You can rotate it with two fingers or drag it around with a single finger. The ruler was shown working in Sketchpad and Powerpoint, and it seems to be available to any app that plugs into the Windows Ink platform.

More Ink integration has come to Bing Maps and Microsoft Word, too. When using a topographical map, sketching from a top-down view will stick the sketch to the landscape in 3D view. Handwritten notes rotate into little 3D billboards. In the demo, it was also possible to tap on two points on the map and draw a line between them to bring up point-to-point directions. In Word, you can cross out a word to delete it, or you can scribble out a whole paragraph. You can highlight with the pen, too, and Word will turn your rough pen line into a perfectly straight highlight.

The new Ink functionality should arrive as part of the "Anniversary Update" to Windows 10 coming this summer.