Here’s the article for reference: microsoft-keyboard-touchscreen-trends

For starters it’s Microsoft, a Big fish in the Computing and Technology Industry. In business, a necessity to succeed is to realize where you are in respect to your competition, and how successful you are. Another rule that large companies follow is to understand what you’re sitting on. So as a company because they started the detachable keyboard that is something that their selling as their product. Of course their principal researcher is going to say that that’s the future of devices because that’s all their producing their trying to sell their product. Sure Windows is on other desktop computers and laptops, but that’s because of their contracts with other computing companies. Since Microsoft’s leading product in computing is the Surface, they have nothing else to compare to. Nothing of theirs at least that’s branded with the Microsoft logo in relation to computers. Their cellphone is a different case because they have several versions and that’s a different market.

“keyboards are now past their prime and will be relegated to niche status going forward.” — Andy Wilson. This is only regarding Microsoft’s products, which in their case, they are predicting that the world will only use their products. (as does every Big Fish). Personally, I have heard many people say “I have no use for tablets” or “I need a real keyboard” which is true to many people, and for me that was the case for a while, or so I thought. I found that I would have uses for it, but I just haven’t found myself to completely rely on something like a surface or a tablet for that matter. I do use laptops, and I’m a huge Desktop fan, not just because I’m a Website Designer but because I’m most comfortable with a physical keyboard and a mouse. I think it has to do with the physiological affect of pressing down on the keyboard keys, and feeling the action happen and things happen on a computers screen. I feel that I have more control over a computer with a keyboard (and mouse) that there’s some kind of co-relation between the two.

I find it kind of ironic how they started building computers where the keyboard was built in, to detaching the keyboard which dominated the computing industry being able to interchange them then removing the keyboard only to put it back in later. Anyways these have been my thoughts on this article, I thought that it would be nice to share.