Microsoft's Chaitanya Sareen in an overview of the change in the Windows 8 Start menu outlined the company's position on the importance of touch. He likened it to the debate over the mouse, which saw its first real mainstream presences in the Apple Lisa and original Mac, and saw some parallels in how it would roll out. Touchscreens would be much more pervasive, Sareen said, but they wouldn't completely replace it on the computer, which was the "most capable" of everyone's devices.
