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Microsoft Office Keyboard
For all the bitching I do about Microsoft, I love their hardware. It's ironic -- for my tastes, Microsoft is a better hardware company than software company, and Apple is a better software company than hardware company. 
Now if MS would make a Natural Office Keyboard, I'd buy it in a minute to replace my Natural Keyboard Pro. The keyboard-attached-left-side-scroll-wheel is perfect.
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August 13th, 2001 - 14:05
I like the Natural Keyboards as well.
One peeve about the MS Hardware site is with all the tiny pictures of the keyboards. If you visit one of those hardware review sites they have every angle on the thing with 10x zoom compared to Microsoft’s site.
<http://www.activewin.com/screenshots/officexpkeyboard/images/officekeyboard.JPG>
<http://www.dansdata.com/nkpro.htm>
Though I’m sure Microsoft’s reputation in the hardware market doesn’t make for much comparison shopping, but stil…
August 13th, 2001 - 14:26
On Monday, August 13, 2001, at 03:11 PM, Lawrence Lee wrote:
> I like the Natural Keyboards as well.
>
> One peeve about the MS Hardware site is with all the tiny pictures of
> the keyboards. If you visit one of those hardware review sites they
> have every angle on the thing with 10x zoom compared to Microsoft’s
> site.
>
> <http://www.activewin.com/screenshots/officexpkeyboard/images/officekeyboard.
> JPG>
Thanks for finding this image. I really like this keyboard, EXCEPT for
the weird block of keys where the
Insert/Home/PageUp,Delete/End/PageDown keys normally are. It reminds me
of the Natural Keyboard “Elite”, which is the worst keyboard they’ve
ever made (I’d rate the XP one 2nd worst because of the same offense)
because the made that block of keys 3 rows of 2 keys instead of the
normal 2 rows of 3 keys.
Hopefully, if they make a Natural Pro version of the Office KB, they’ll
remember to leave that block of keys and the inverted-T arrow keys
alone. I was distraught when I spilled juice on my original Natural
Keyboard and brought home a new “Elite” KB to find it was massacred by
that problem. It made it totally unusable for me, a touch typist
programmer that knows where EVERY key on the keyboard is without
looking. I was so happy when the Natural Keyboard PRO came out and
corrected that mistake.
> <http://www.dansdata.com/nkpro.htm>
>
> Though I’m sure Microsoft’s reputation in the hardware market doesn’t
> make for much comparison shopping, but stil…
Thanks for the links.
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