Microsoft Hardware Group Gets Windows 8-Ready

With Windows 8 to launch in October, your customers will want upgrades on their Microsoft peripherals selection: for example, wireless and tablet-friendly keyboards and mice.

Windows 8 AccessoriesMost interesting are the Wedge Touch Mouse and Keyboard-- Bluetooth-enabled compact devices with Windows 8 features (such as shortcut keys) and pleasing industrial design.

The Wedge Touch Mouse features 4-way scrolling and Bluetrack technology, allowing customers to use it on any surface. Meanwhile the Wedge Keyboard has a removable cover that doubles as a multi-angle (via centre joint) tablet stand and a set of hotkeys for launching Windows 8 menu functions.

The Explorer Touch Mouse and Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard 5000 get an update, and are now the Sculpt Touch Mouse and Sculpt Mobile Keyboard-- thanks to extra Windows 8 functions and a change of Windows logo.

Microsoft 8 keyboard

For 30 years, the Microsoft Hardware Group has successfully sold PC peripherals, a fact that many observers forget when they argue the software giant has little or no experience in hardware.  In the rat race to sell mice and keyboards, Microsoft succeeds in selling brand and product quality against the The Horde of cheap, brand-less Asian manufacturers. This is a tour de force equal to HP holding the number one position in printers.

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