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Microsoft Hardware at CES 2012

Microsoft Hardware was present at CES 2012, celebrating 30 years of making great hardware for the PC. The Microsoft Hardware Group was formed back in 1982. It was meant to come up with a mouse compatible with Microsoft Word. “Microsoft Hardware helped pave the way the hardware industry designs products tha...

12 January 2012
14:51 GMT

Microsoft Shows Prototype Arc Touch Mouse

Last year, Microsoft made official its Arc Touch Mouse, which marked a change in the manner in which users could use the small piece of hardware for their daily work, through replacing the traditional scroll wheel with a strip featuring touch capabilities. The company has been also working on another Arc Touch Mou...

12 December 2011
08:01 GMT

The Art of Touch Provides Canvas for Digital Masterpieces

The Art of Touch is a very interesting new project from Microsoft Hardware, inspired by some of its best peripherals to date, including: the Touch Mouse, the Arc Touch Mouse and the Explorer Touch Mouse. Designed to foster creativity, The Art of Touch website is a digital canvas enabling users with browsers playing n...

10 November 2011
11:22 GMT

Microsoft Touch Mouse TUI.TAR

TUI.TAR is the winning project of the UIST Student Innovation Contest in the Most Creative category, and you need to view the video above in order to get an idea of just exactly qualified the team from Wellesley College for the accolade. Essentially, the Microsoft Touch Mouse was transformed into a “musical i...

3 November 2011
11:25 GMT

Amazing Examples of Microsoft Touch Mouse Innovation

The winning projects of the UIST Student Innovation Contest are amazing examples of the kind of innovation that can be built on top of the Microsoft Touch Mouse. Prizes were offered for the following categories: most creative, most useful and best implemented. You will find a collection of links at the bottom of th...

3 November 2011
10:58 GMT

Behind the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 Studio Series Designs

Microsoft has made available a behind-the-scenes video designed to share with consumers the story of the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 Studio Series patterns. According to the Redmond company, inspiration for the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 Studio Series designs came from nature, hobbies and the city. Microsoft Ha...

29 October 2011
06:17 GMT

When NUI Meets Art: The Touch Mouse Artist Edition

The Touch Mouse Artist Edition is a new flavor of the plain vanilla Touch Mouse, upgraded with a new designed created by Deanne Cheuk. Already a marvelous product, the peripheral received an artistic upgrade courtesy of Cheuk, as users can see in the image on the left as well as in the video embedded below. Lindsey...

24 August 2011
08:49 GMT

IntelliPoint 8.2 and IntelliType 8.2 Software for Windows Available for Download

 Users of Microsoft Hardware peripherals are sure to be familiar with the IntelliType and IntelliPoint software that the Redmond company is offering them. On August 8th, 2011, the software giant posted both Microsoft IntelliType Pro 8.2 Keyboard Software for Windows and Microsoft IntelliPoint 8.2 Mouse Software ...

9 August 2011
04:11 GMT

Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 3000 Available in August 2011

Microsoft is gearing up to launch a new ergonomic keyboard focused on delivering the user comfort of a split keyboard with a straight keyboard design. It took the Redmond company’s three years to blend together the best out of the two worlds into a single peripheral which is right on track for commercial avail...

15 June 2011
04:45 GMT

Microsoft Artist Studio Series for the Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500

A new edition collection of peripherals from Microsoft is designed to put works of art at the users’ fingertips. The Redmond company just announced the Microsoft Studio Series Artist Edition, offering customers upgraded Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 designs. According to the software giant, artists from around t...

12 May 2011
06:47 GMT

Microsoft Hardware Hub Major Redesign Goes Live

Microsoft has introduced a major redesign to its online hardware hub. The new Microsoft Hardware site is now live and available to customers, although it seems that the company is still working to make it 100% functional again. In all fairness, this particular facelift for the Microsoft Hardware site was long overdu...

9 May 2011
04:32 GMT

Microsoft Hardware Model Shop Video Tour

While not many people outside of Microsoft get to visit the company’s Redmond campus, even less get the chance to tour specific destinations that otherwise remain hidden from the world. It’s the case of places such as Microsoft Home which Softpedia readers were able to “visit” yesterday, and ...

5 May 2011
07:52 GMT

Innovative Microsoft Touch Mouse for Windows 7 Available in June 2011

Microsoft has expanded the NUI input model supported by default in Windows 7 to an upcoming peripheral scheduled for market availability in June 2011. And in fact it makes perfect sense that natural user interfaces be leveraged in order to catalyze the evolution of already established human computer interaction mo...

6 January 2011
03:44 GMT

Microsoft Hardware Evolves to Cater to Business Customers

Microsoft Hardware has evolved in order to better cater to business customers in addition to consumers. The Redmond company announced the launch of Microsoft Hardware for Business line which streamlines peripherals acquisition. Essentially, the same Microsoft webcams, headsets, mice, and keyboards available for con...

16 December 2010
05:23 GMT

Microsoft Hardware Discounts for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Microsoft gaming and notebook accessories, keyboard, mice, and webcams are available at discount prices from multiple retail partners of the Redmond company. Of course, the deals are offered to customers that have been waiting for Black Friday, and the start of the holiday shopping spree. The software giant announc...

26 November 2010
05:02 GMT

Microsoft Introduces the Designer of the Arc Touch Mouse

At the start of September 2010, Microsoft unveiled the Arc Touch Mouse officially, after details of the device had already made their way into the wild, having been leaked by a German online retail shop. With the launch of the Arc Touch Mouse website, the Redmond company also provided users with a video introducing ...

10 September 2010
04:26 GMT

Microsoft Launches Arc Touch Mouse

Microsoft is, ironically, the last company to unveil details of its own Arc Touch Mouse, after Microsoft Hardware started sharing a few teases leading to the product to be brought into the limelight ahead of plan, with a German online shop leaking the complete details and images. The Arc Touch Mouse has now been lau...

2 September 2010
05:05 GMT

6 Designs in the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 Studio Series from Microsoft

A new collection of stylish peripherals is now available from Microsoft Hardware. The Redmond company announced the release of a new line of wireless mobile mice, that come with unique designs set up to personalize each device. The Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000 Studio Series line features a total of six designs, and us...

26 August 2010
11:06 GMT

New Touch NUI Peripheral Coming from Microsoft Hardware

Microsoft is preparing to unveil a new peripheral for Windows PCs. The Redmond company has engaged users in a guessing game via Twitter, where Microsoft Hardware is sharing a sneak peek of the new product, but revealing very little in fact. So far, the hardware division from the Redmond company indicated only that it...

4 August 2010
09:47 GMT

Introducing the Arc Keyboard from Microsoft

At the 2010 Consumers Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft introduced the companion to its Arc Mouse, namely the Arc Keyboard. The images included with this article are illustrative of the choice in terms of style Microsoft Hardware has made with the new peripheral product. The Arc Keyboard is clearly related to ...

8 January 2010
06:16 GMT

Windows 7 RTM Drivers from Microsoft Hardware Available

Microsoft’s “Better Together” slogan apparently applies not only to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 but also to the latest iteration of the Windows client and the Redmond company’s peripherals. The vast majority of products offered by Microsoft Hardware features the Windows 7 Compatible l...

30 October 2009
10:54 GMT

New Windows 7 Hardware Features Coming

Microsoft Hardware, the Redmond company's maker of computer peripherals, promised that its products would not only be fully compatible with the next iteration of the Windows client by General Availability, but that they would deliver Windows 7-exclusive features. Windows 7 is scheduled to hit the shelves on Octo...

3 June 2009
08:24 GMT

Microsoft Hardware Support for Windows 7 Beta

Even though Windows 7 is essentially the evolution of Windows Vista, as the operating system is available in public Beta, users of the development milestone will inherently come across glitches, including hardware incompatibility problems. Furthermore, some Windows 7 Beta Build 7000 testers are bound to run into inco...

29 January 2009
16:01 GMT

Microsoft Unveils New Peripherals Combos

Microsoft is looking to attract digital media enthusiasts with its latest line-up of mouse and keyboard combos. The Wireless Laser Desktop 6000 and Wireless Media Desktop 1000 are two product sets planned for availability by the end of September 2008. According to the Redmond company, Microsoft Hardware focused on de...

10 September 2008
08:48 GMT

Microsoft Blue Track Says Goodbye to Laser

Although Microsoft is not breathing a single word in relation to an event it has cooking for September 9, 2008, under the slogan "Say Goodbye to Laser," leaks from its partners are managing to paint a more complete picture. As it has been speculated, the new technology, which will be unveiled in the second week of th...

28 August 2008
07:16 GMT

Microsoft Hardware Gets Ready to "Say Goodbye to Laser"

Microsoft is getting ready to "Say Goodbye to Laser" with its hardware division. The Redmond company is gearing up to unveil the items from its latest product lineup on September 9 2008. The software giant has already announced the event under the slogan "Say Goodbye to Laser," but has failed to deliver any sort of a...

27 August 2008
19:59 GMT

The Microsoft Hardware Technologies Bazaar Is Now Open

The Microsoft hardware technologies bazaar is now open for business. The Redmond company announced the Licensed Contract Manufacturers Marketplace at Computex Taipei 2008 in Taiwan, an online hotspot aimed to feature its intellectual property licensing program for hardware. The new marketplace along with the extended...

3 June 2008
08:09 GMT

Microsoft Promises Windows Vista Optimized Hardware

Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista is on the right track to get some new toys. This is the promise that Matt Barlow, Director of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development for Microsoft Hardware, made on the 25th anniversary of the Redmond company's division. But Windows Vista is not the o...

13 September 2007
09:51 GMT


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