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Microsoft's man in charge of predicting the future has forecast the slow death of the Qwerty keyboard — with facial tracking, voice and gesture recognition taking over. Dave Coplin, the technology giant's chief envisioning officer, said it was bizarre that 21st-century workers still relied on typing technology invented in the 19th century. He added that while there have been huge leaps in technology, often the workplace had not caught up.
"We have these amazing computers that we essentially use like we're still Victorians. The Qwerty keyboard is a great example of an old design being brought forward to modern day. We've not really evolved. We still use this sub-optimal design.
"We're looking at technologies now like voice and gesture recognition, and facial tracking that may make the keyboard redundant," he added.
"We think that computers in the not-too-distant future will be able to understand all of those things and infer on my behalf my intent, meaning and objective that I'm trying to do."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Moof123 on Saturday October 08 2016, @04:02PM
They thought Clippy was the future, they still are all in on the Ribbon interface, and so many awful examples of sucking at UI prediction.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday October 08 2016, @04:43PM
To even invent a "blue screen of death": why not just have it fall back to a nice 'Dos' type screen of black with white characters.
Instead, you got that glaring blue. Dumb.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by frojack on Saturday October 08 2016, @10:58PM
Really? The background COLOR is all you can find to complain about in the BSOD?
Wow.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday October 09 2016, @12:38AM
No... that's why (or one reason why) I switched to Linux. There's too many things about windows to complain about.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 08 2016, @11:27PM
Because if it had white letters on black, you'd assume it was DOS?