Along with Windows 8 , Windows RT , and Windows Phone 8 , Microsoft has released a handful of new keyboards, trying to cover the wide range of people who need a physical keyboard regardless of it they're working on desktop or on a tablet.

No-one could accuse Microsoft's hardware department of failing to support Windows 8 . As well as the much-vaunted Microsoft Surface Windows 8 tablet , Microsoft has launched a plethora of peripherals dedicated to the new OS.

I've been using Microsoft 's new Sculpt Comfort keyboard for a few days now, and so far it hasn't revolutionized my typing. But that's just what it promises - to change one of the fundamental parts of modern keyboards: the backspace key.

The Sculpt Comfort keyboard ($59.95) has a unique feature: It splits the space bar in two and creates another Backspace key on the left side of it (in blue). Since 90% of typists hit the space bar with their right thumb, according to Microsoft, the new positioning could make typing more efficient —...

No-one could accuse Microsoft's hardware department of failing to support Windows 8 . As well as the much-vaunted Microsoft Surface Windows 8 tablet , Microsoft has launched a plethora of peripherals dedicated to the new OS.