If it were up to the user then there is a way to turn it off. I found this discussion because even with a physical keyboard attached (type keyboard) that dang thing pops up all the time when browsing web pages. Extremely annoying and no it doesnt go
away on its own. We need additional configuration options to directly CONTROL it as a user regardless if the mouse set to jump to the next click spot (because the touch pad is combersome and not as responsive to some people) automatically activates the
keyboard in draw mode, where it should be an option to turn it off. Maybe its there, but if it, then is it is very difficult to find.
How about allow the open the keyboard when they want it like with a hotkey (a hot key solves the problem if not in desktop mode).
Issue with the touch panel for the mouse is related when browsing and you have the mouse set to jump to the net most logical click spot (because moving the mouse using the touch pad is not as simple as a mouse and is not as responsive as it could be especially
when Windows thinks you moved the mouse starting from the far right or left) when you see something on the webpage (like a typical menu at the top of ebay for advanced searching or to click in the search box for example) that you want to click on and put your
finger on the touch pad and begin to move the mouse toward the middle of the screen (depending on if you started from the left or the right side) it thinks you just intended to open a control panel from the right or the task switcher from the left when in
fact the mouse was never that far from the side of the screen and all kinds of popups happen automatically when you finally get the mouse to the spot you want it, including the keyboard and side panels are making it annoying to use a surface from typical casual
web browsing. Pr4ess the option with you finger on the screen and at first it doesnt realize you are trying to click somewhere, so you start to get trained to use the mouse that is if you can find the proper way that doesnt create a ton more things to
happen which you never intended.