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Get used to touching your PC screen. In an interview with Technology Review , Windows product development chief Julie Larson-Green said that the days when PCs were simply keyboard-and-mouse operations are over and that touch will be an integral part of the PC experience going forward.

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For cost considerations there might always be some computers without touch, but I believe that the vast majority will, she said. We re seeing that the computers with touch are the fastest-selling right now. I can t imagine a computer without touch anymore. Once you ve experienced it, it s really hard to go back.

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Microsoft s ( MSFT ) Surface tablet was the first Windows product to integrate touch capabilities but it has received fairly mixed reviews , and reports suggest that sales have been middling so far . Even so, it s hard to argue that touch screens have become a staple of computing so it s not surprising that Microsoft has decided to go all-in on touch capabilities for its next generation of personal computers.

This article was originally published by BGR