Bill Gates predicts

Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates has offered his take on the future of PCs. He says that people will see a sea change in the way they interact with computers in the coming five years.


Three years ago he spoke about the idea of the digital lifestyle. That our music, photos, TV, and communications would all be very different. And over these last three years it is really coming into the mainstream.


In a just released interview with BBC he is quoted as saying "this whole idea of what I call natural user interface is really redefining the experience."

"We're adding the ability to touch and directly manipulate, we're adding vision so the computer can see what you're doing, we're adding the pen, we're adding speech," he added.

Gates unveiled the Microsoft Surface computer, a large table like machine with a multi-touch interface, during the interview.