[Soothesayer9]

I hear they eventually want to do away with mice/keyboards and go with touch LCD screens and voice. And rumor has it they want to have a webcam ID login upon windows boot.

Bad. Idea.

[The_Victor]

I hear they eventually want to do away with mice/keyboards and go with touch LCD screens and voice

Can you imagine how noisy offices would get with everyone talking to (or yelling at) their computer? On the plus side, they'd prolly have to eliminate cubicles and go back top offices with doors.

[PugetSoundSoldier]

It's not just eventually, they have actually released a prototype product without a keyboard, called the iWheel. Totally revolutionary, Apple does it again!

I don't think Microsoft will copy this one, however...

[ReignOfError]

I hear they eventually want to do away with mice/keyboards and go with touch LCD screens and voice.

Lift your hands from the keyboard and put your fingertips on your screen.

Now hold them there for the next eight hours.

Doesn't take too long to come to the conclusion that touch-screen desktop computers are overrated.

Similarly, try speaking aloud everything that you type. Aside from privacy concerns (I really don't want the guy in the next cubicle knowing what I"m ordering from Amazon), voice is basically a command-line interface. And speaking with the clear enunciation and stilted, unnatural style that computer voice recognition requires puts a lot of strain on the old pipes.

And rumor has it they want to have a webcam ID login upon windows boot.

I can't wait to see all the tickets the IT department gets from people who can't log in because they're having a bad hair day.