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Microsoft in deep thought about future computing.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)

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| July 01, 2004 | Langberg, Mike | COPYRIGHT 2004 Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: Mike Langberg

If you think computers make your life complicated today, just wait a few years.

How are you going to control your PC when the screen is 20 feet across instead of 20 inches? How are you going to find a favorite picture when your library of digital photos grows into the thousands? How can you keep on top of the news when hundreds of stories arrive every day from around the world?

Microsoft, you'll be relieved to know, is hard at work on answers to all these problems.

Last week, the Redmond, Wash., company presented a "research road show" at its corporate campus in Mountain View, Calif., to show what kind of deep thoughts it's possible to think when you have all the money in the world.

Microsoft is so rich that it supports a research group of 700 ...

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