Microsoft Announces Laser Desktop 7000 & Digital Media Keyboard 3000

We could take the rather harsh stance that, if proof were needed that MS should look to acquire Logitech at all costs - if only to get their hands on Logitech’s design team – Microsoft’s newly announced Laser Desktop 7000 and Digital Media Keyboard 3000 could undoubtedly serve to underpin quite why but, irrespective of this, these new devices are hardly unattractive – perhaps if only to the same degree that they’re not especially mind blowing.

The high end Microsoft Laser Desktop 7000 keyboard and mouse set, which is by far the more attractive of the two, like the Digital Media Keyboard 3000, is apparently styled on Windows Vista’s Aero Glass interface. Sporting a series of Vista focused shortcut keys which can be assigned according to user requirements (thus making the keyboard appeal to non-Vista users – i.e., most of us) the somewhat curvaceous Laser Desktop 7000 comes complete with wireless mouse featuring a Flip 3D button, a horizontal charging station and will retail for around $130.

The rather more mundane, and decidedly cheaper, Digital Media Keyboard 3000 comes with shortcut, media and image zoom keys as well as an edge based Flip 3D switch and, to be frank, is so utterly uninspiring that to pad this post with further description of its otherwise run-of-the-mill features would be paying you a grave disservice but, at a mere $30, what would you expect other than a fairly stock, cheap keyboard – and it fulfils this remit perfectly.

Microsoft’s Laser Desktop 7000 is due to be release in April but we’ve sure you’d rather hold back till June when the Digital Media Keyboard 3000 is released (not). Alternatively you could always just look towards a Logitech device and ignore these altogether.

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