Microsoft is ceasing the manufacture and sale of Microsoft mice, keyboards and cameras in favor of Surface accessories.
Microsoft will no longer manufacture mice, Microsoft-branded keyboards and webcams. Instead, it now focuses on its Surface-branded computer accessories, which except from mice and keyboards will include many more.
Η company first released its first mouse in 1983 and bundled it with Microsoft Word and Notepad. The keyboard of with the epiadditional Windows button which first appeared in 1994, was a brilliant move that took off Windows 95.
The difference between the Surface and Microsoft brands is that today's Surface-branded keyboards and mice sell for much more expensive (more than double) prices than the cheap Microsoft-branded accessories.
For example, Microsoft offers a regular Surface-branded wireless keyboard, at a retail price of 125 euros, which is more than double that of its regular wireless keyboard Microsoft at 30,00 euros. Microsoft has not commented on its plans.