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| - In April 2006, Microsoft released a new keyboard design following the results of a study on Windows users on which actions they needed to perform most often. The results showed, overwhelmingly, that Ctrl-Alt-Delete, was by far the most frequent key combination used, for restarting Windows, followed closely by Delete, for removing files, viruses, license agreements, viruses, temporary files, your homework, school, earth, the universe, and Windows.
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| - In April 2006, Microsoft released a new keyboard design following the results of a study on Windows users on which actions they needed to perform most often. The results showed, overwhelmingly, that Ctrl-Alt-Delete, was by far the most frequent key combination used, for restarting Windows, followed closely by Delete, for removing files, viruses, license agreements, viruses, temporary files, your homework, school, earth, the universe, and Windows. The keyboard is available in beige or black. Unfortunately, the black version was a flop as Microsoft forgot that they would have to change the ink color for the key labels as well. Thus, the labels being black on black, no one knew which keys were which. It is available with a PS/2 connector, USB, or wireless Bluetooth. The Bluetooth versions proved unpopular because of a problem with the circuitry. This made the transmitter power insanely high and could cause all Windows computers up to a 2 miles (3.2 km) radius to restart. Unless Windows had actually crashed, in which case the Bluetooth drivers would "not respond". Users also found that during heavy use, the battery life was a little less then 2 hours (0.0833 days); completely inadequate in a business environment. The USB version faired a little better, as fully-working USB support only became available with Windows Vista. Thus the only actual working design on the market is the beige PS/2 one, pictured above.
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