FCC documentation has revealed that Microsoft’s new Bluetooth keyboard will come with a fingerprint reader for those who are too high class for text passwords. Keyboards with fingerprint readers aren’t anything new, but this is actually the company’s first effort at a desktop keyboard with this form of recognition. I just like the fact that it will give you a choice between USB-wired mode and BT.



…the keyboard appears to be a wireless desktop model like the Surface Studio keyboard with likely a full set of keys including a numeric keypad. According to that documentation, the keyboard also included a convenient USB wired mode, and it appears to use a rechargeable battery rather than AA cells. Now the Bluetooth SIG listing has been updated, on the 1/5/2017 to include a mention of a fingerprint reader, with the device now being named the “Microsoft Modern Keyboard with Fingerprint ID” and being described as a “BTLE Keyboard with Fingerprint enroll feature.”

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Source: [H]ardOCP – Microsoft Releasing Modern Keyboard with Fingerprint Reader