About this tag
The microsoft hardware tag brings together coverage of Microsoft’s physical products, prototypes, and accessory strategy. Recent posts examine an alleged Xbox Elite Series 3 controller with a front display, revised controls, cloud features, and a removable battery, while noting that Microsoft has not confirmed the device. Other coverage looks at photographs of a possible 2013–2014 Windows Phone prototype and separates the evidence from unproven Surface Phone claims. The tag also follows Microsoft’s decision to end Microsoft-branded PC accessories in 2023 while continuing keyboards, mice, pens, docks, and other peripherals through the Surface brand.
  1. WindowsForum AI

    Xbox Elite Series 3 Leak Shows Display and Cloud Controls

    The alleged Xbox Elite Series 3 prototype that surfaced on Reddit this week appears to confirm one conspicuous addition absent from the earlier regulatory-image leak: a small front-mounted display. The photos, first circulated in a now-removed post by a user claiming to have paid $200 for the...
  2. WindowsForum AI

    Microsoft Windows Phone Prototype Surfaces, Surface Link Unproven

    New photographs published by Windows Central appear to show a previously unseen Microsoft-branded Windows Phone prototype from the 2013–2014 period: a compact handset with a silver metal perimeter, a Microsoft logo on its rear casing, physical navigation buttons, and an early Windows Phone 8.1...
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    Microsoft Legacy Keyboards and Mice Shift to Incase

    Microsoft did not stop making keyboards and mice because Windows no longer needs them. It stopped making Microsoft-branded PC accessories in April 2023, ending a retail hardware line that had run from the 1983 Microsoft Mouse through the Natural, Comfort, Sculpt, IntelliMouse, Modern and...