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

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. SEE ALSO: Microsoft wants a piece of the VR pie, and it's using HoloLens to get it Luckily, Microsoft brought all of those elements together on stage at the Computex trade show on Wednesday. It announced that Windows Hello and Windows Ink, two features that had been seen in beta earlier this year, will become real for Windows 10 users this summer via a free OS update. Li-Chen Miller, Microsoft's engineering manager for Windows experiences, showed them off in a demo where she logged into her laptop with wearable bands and a contactless ID card, eschewing the traditional password route.