Microsoft today unveiled a touch-sensitive coffee-table-shaped 'surface computer' in a major step towards co-founder Bill Gates's view of an interactive future where users use touch, voice and pen instead of the traditional mouse and keyboard.
Microsoft Surface, which has a 30-inch display under a hard-plastic tabletop, allows people to touch and move objects on screen.
It also recognizes and interacts with devices, such as mobile phones and digital cameras, placed on its surface.
The world's largest software maker said it will sell the new computer initially to corporate customers for between $5,000 and $10,000 each.
It aims to bring prices down to consumer levels in three to five years and introduce various shapes and forms.
