New way to get the news
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
It won't hit the doorstep with a satisfying thud, or crinkle pleasantly in the hands. But Bill Gates on Friday showed a computer program meant to imitate -- and improve upon -- the experience of reading ink on newsprint.
Speaking in Seattle to a convention of the nation's newspaper editors, the Microsoft chairman brought out executives from The New York Times to demonstrate prototype software that displays text and images on the computer screen in much the same way as in the paper.
"We think this is a milestone in terms of online reading," Gates told the American Society of Newspaper Editors.