Microsoft’s peripherals are lifeless. Long stay Microsoft (Surface) peripherals.

After a long time of transport Microsoft-branded peripherals just like the Microsoft Modern Keyboard, Microsoft is looking it quits. Instead, Microsoft will shift its emphasis to Surface-branded peripherals—which embrace some comparable peripherals, offered beneath the Surface model. But not all.

“Going forward, we are focusing on our Windows PC accessories portfolio under the Surface brand,” says Dan Laycock, senior communications supervisor at Microsoft, in a statement given to The Verge. “We will continue to offer a range of Surface branded PC accessories—including mice, keyboards, pens, docks, adaptive accessories, and more. Existing Microsoft-branded PC accessories like mice, keyboards, and webcams will continue to be sold in existing markets at existing sell-in prices while supplies last.”

It’s not clear, nevertheless, how carefully Microsoft’s Surface peripherals lineup will overlap with its current peripherals, elevating the query of whether or not Microsoft is definitely partially withdrawing from the market, or if the emblem will merely change on the field. Microsoft’s Surface Ergonomic Keyboard (offered out, by the way) appears just about equivalent to the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard, although one is roofed in Alcantara cloth and the opposite is plastic. The Surface Arc Mouse appears just about the identical because the Microsoft Arc Mouse, too, although in several colours. But others, just like the Microsoft Designer Keyboard, don’t have any Surface equivalents.

It’s an ironic twist given Microsoft’s information that its Surface business has suffered a 30 percent drop in sales, and that inventories in reseller channels stay excessive. That often suggests gross sales are within the offing.

The drawback is that Surface is a premium model, and Microsoft fees accordingly. At Amazon, the Microsoft Arc Mouse is $48.58, whereas Microsoft costs the Surface Arc Mouse at $66.99. Microsoft additionally doesn’t make Surface equivalents for all the pieces in its product line—Microsoft’s Lifecam webcam, for instance. (We requested Microsoft for extra remark, and we’ll replace this put up accordingly.)

Interestingly, neither “Microsoft” nor “Surface” keyboards make the lower in our roundup of the best wireless keyboards, and Microsoft merchandise don’t seem in our listing of the best webcams, both. But the Microsoft Arc Mouse and Microsoft Bluetooth Mouse make the lower as a few of the best computer mice available on the market—for now, anyway.

Microsoft launched the Microsoft Natural Keyboard in 1994, that means that we’ve had a number of a long time of Microsoft merchandise. But all good issues should come to an finish, apparently.