Pens, holograms and you: Microsoft's quest to make computing 'natural'

TAIPEI, Taiwan — Microsoft's vision of "natural computing" will be a significant departure from the keyboard-and-mouse combination we're all familiar with today — but several moving parts have to come together in order to make it work.

Namely, those include touchscreens, smart pens and augmented-reality headsets.

Luckily, Microsoft brought all of those elements together on stage at the Computex trade show on Wednesday.

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