Microsoft admits natural keyboards unnatural

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A MAN FROM MICROSOFT told an audience of 400 system integrators today that despite extensive research that resulted in the Natural Keyboard, it has now realized that actually it’s rather an unnatural design.

The split keyboard approach was heralded with a blaze of publicity when it was launched in the 1990s. It would aid your typing, it would reduce the incidence of repetitive strain injury, and in short it was bloody ergonomic, Microsoft said then, without using the bloody word, of course.

We reviewed this keyboard for a magazine we were editing at the time, and reproduced the entire article the way it was coming out compared to a flat keyboard.

But the Microsoft hardware executive, Marco C. Chillon from the EMEA home and entertainment division, said this morning that after more years of research, the firm had realized that the Natural Keyboard involved people learning how to re-type. So instead it has designed a new wireless keyboard with only a six degree angle between the two sets of keys from the home keys.

Sheesh. All that wasted effort! Touch typists would have little problem with Natural Keyboards, but we’re a touch typist and it gave us a heck of a problem. At the time.

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I always hated those split keyboards. Could never type on them. :(

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Originally Posted by rossco_2004

I always hated those split keyboards. Could never type on them. :(

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I know just what you mean. It's almost like having 2 separate hands. :blink:

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Originally Posted by lynx

I know just what you mean. It's almost like having 2 separate hands. :blink:

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ya exactly.
I like the have both hands transfer around a lot all over the keyboard.

People think it's weird but im a fast typer so who cares. :)

i have a microsoft natural keyboard pro. i don't find it difficult. it actually helped my slight artheritis on my hand cuz i type so fast. i wouldn't say it's a bad product. been using it for over 3 years now

I like natural keyboards much better than normal keyboards, it would suck if they stopped making them.

Wtf is the toilet paper for?:blink:

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Originally Posted by HardcoreGamer

Wtf is the toilet paper for?:blink:

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:lol: where did u get toilet paper from???

are those natural keyboard good for gaming?

You people can type?

Sheesh...now I feel really stupid.

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Originally Posted by Keikan

are those natural keyboard good for gaming?

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No.

I had one for my brother's computer (the only one I found in my "spares" cupboard) and it sucked for games.

isn't "natural keyboard" an oxymoron, in the first place? :P

http://www.newtechusa.com/humor/HPri...-keyboard2.jpg

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Originally Posted by abu_has_the_power

i have a microsoft natural keyboard pro. i don't find it difficult. it actually helped my slight artheritis on my hand cuz i type so fast. i wouldn't say it's a bad product. been using it for over 3 years now

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You have arthritis and you are about 16??

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Originally Posted by Mad Cat

You have arthritis and you are about 16??

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Arthritis is not brought on by age, although the effects are often masked until later in life. Even babies can have arthritis.

Yes, even embryos. I hate those natural keyboard. It is just like having your hands switched, or trying to type with your face.

Hello!

Yeah ofcourse it is unnatural to have a split keyboard its like having schizophrenia I would hate it:blink:

http://www.thenetw0rk.com/features/msxp_keyboard.jpg

Even more unnatural from Microsoft a killer machine :

http://www.4bitterguys.com/rants/unn.../unnatural.jpg

More info on unnatural keyboard from Microsoft a simple review:

http://www.4bitterguys.com/rants/unnatural/

The second one looks painful! :crying:

billy screws it up again :lol:

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Originally Posted by Mad Cat

You have arthritis and you are about 16??

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Its not just bad for your eyes :huh: