Rating: 
Summary: Bluetooth Good, Microsoft Bad?
Review: Mistake #1 I originally bought the combo so I could sync my pda since it's a bluetooth device, but MS doesn't include the required bluetooth profiles. Mistake #2 Even though the keyboard and mouse have great designs, the MS Bluetooth transceiver can not function properly with any other Bluetooth transceiver on the computer system. So buying a Bluetooth USB adapter from another company and installing it will not work (its either the Microsoft transceiver or a competing company or neither -- However, bluetooth profiles for the keyboard/mouse combo are not included with competing companies bluetooth usb adapters).Too make a long story short, at this time, a decision to have a bluetooth wireless keyboard/mouse combo or a different bluetooth usb adapter to allow syncing of pdas and other devices must be made. YOU CAN NOT HAVE BOTH. While installing both devices will work initially, eventually the wireless connection will be lost and more time will be spent unstalling and reinstalling the combo than actually using it. Mama Miah
Rating: 
Summary: Worked for one day
Review: My experience with this is similar to many of the other reports. It worked beautifully for one session (a few hours), after a multi-reboot install procedure (not difficult, but not well thought out). The next day neither the mouse nor keyboard worked. The reconnect procedure could not find either. I reinstalled the software and still could not get it to connect. The microsoft website was no help. I got it from Best Buy, which had almost a dozen "open item" packages of the product (at $10 discount), but no new copies. I guess that should have served as a warning. Will be returning it today, and probably buying the Logitech Bluetooth setup (I need the range that bluetooth provides).
Rating:
Summary: I'd give it no stars if possible.
Review: Ok I've heard all over the web "if you know blue tooth", that's garbage. This product is absolute junk. 1) The transceiver doesn't work with many other blue tooth devices, i.e. cell phones in particular.
2) It's hit or miss what does and doesn't work and right now doesn't seem trackable. One person says they got their Nokia to go while ten others say it won't.
3) You have to have XP and SP1a or SP1 + hotfix to even install. XP isn't even close to Win2K in stability so this is a huge downer.
4) There are no tools for troubleshooting. It's click to find device or nothing. This is the worst bit.
5) I spent 2.5 hours with MS support trying to get three different optical BT desktops going. Nothing. It was even a clean install of the latest XP with no other software applied except the 80.4 MB of required security patches post SP1a.
6) Anything this hard to get going on a pristine new PC isn't going to be worth it in the long run.
7) A lot interferes with the BT implementation in general. According to MS tech support, high refresh rates on large monitors, microwaves (water resonates at 2.4 Ghz), 2.4 GHz phones, 802.11b devices, etc...
8) Last but not least, there's no way to manually turn off these devices and they take forever to wake up and resync once they self power down. I'm sorry to say it's just not worth it. Wait another year to see if they build a better version as this one is junk.
Rating:
Summary: WARNING: use of this product may cause uncontrolled rage
Review: Straight out of the box, I had no trouble installing the keyboard to my Sony Vaio laptop, but the mouse could not be installed without uninstalling my touchpad...screw that. The keyboard worked for a few days, then the computer forgot who the keyboard was. Every time I tried to re-recognize the keyboard, it caused my laptop keyboard to turn off and a system restore to a pre-bluetooth desktop time was the only way to get it back. It never recognized the keyboard again. I was able to find my tungsten pda with the transceiver, but once found and authenticated, there was nothing that could be done with it, unless confirming that it exists is important to you. After completely removing all vestiges of this product from my computer and starting anew in hopes that the thing would work like it did the first time, it still did not work. Finally I installed it on my Dell desktop computer. Had no trouble authenticating the mouse, but the wizard for the keyboard would not work. After much frustration and tinkering long into the night, I discovered that you could go in to the control panel and click on wireless link in "printers and other hardware" and search for the keyboard. Once found, choose "this device does not require authentication", and it will work fine. So far I have had no further issues, but I am terrified every time I sit down that I will end up engaged in another hours long struggle with my computer. I am going to buy the logitech RF wireless setup for my laptop. I hear its a breeze to set up.
Rating:
Summary: A quick summary
Review: The good points:
The mouse is ergonomic, has 5 buttons, and once you take a file to some of the sharp mould lines, it feels quite comfy. Both the keyboard and mouse feel (and look) like quality products. Being wireless there are no keyboard or mouse leads to clutter up the desk. The bad points:
Mouse battery life is less than a week (I'm replacing my NiCad rechargeables every two days!); the keyboard batteries lasts about 6 weeks.
The mouse (and occasionally keyboard) is frequently forgotten by Windows, and has to be manually unisnstalled and re-installed every time this happens. Which is about twice a week.
All of the bad points could be fixed with a software upgrade; Microsoft know about the problems, but haven't released any updated drivers since the product was released. I wouldn't recommend this to my worst enemy.
Rating: 
Summary: Great Keyboard and Mouse Combo
Review: The Microsoft Wireless Bluetooth Desktop offers superiour range to any RF combo. I have tried the Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 2.0 and the Logitech Cordless MX Duo and I could hardly get my mouse to function if it was just a few inches under my table (I have a sliding out tray). While the battery life on the mouse is meager, you can just get rechargible batteries. The keyboard and mouse are very high quality and the mouse feels sturdy and really fits your hand.
Rating:
Summary: Great Keyboard and Mouse Combo
Review: The Microsoft Wireless Bluetooth Desktop offers superiour range to any RF combo. I have tried the Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop 2.0 and the Logitech Cordless MX Duo and I could hardly get my mouse to function if it was just a few inches under my table (I have a sliding out tray). While the battery life on the mouse is meager, you can just get rechargible batteries. The keyboard and mouse are very high quality and the mouse feels sturdy and really fits your hand.
Rating:
Summary: Go for a Logitech instead
Review: The mouse and keyboard are very nice...as long as you expect to want to throw one or both components out the window a few times a week. Pros:
Excellent design
Long range (and because it isn't IR things don't have to face eachother)
Good driver support
"Cool" factor
Mouse is extremely comfortable Cons:
No charger for the mouse (and it drains batteries in a week or two of normal usage)
Keyboard frequently has a "stuck" key (letter starts scrolling across the screen for a good 30 seconds, nothing to do but click someplace safe and let it pass--most fun when it is the backspace key and you watch your e-mail disappear)
Keyboard frequently stops responding for random periods of time
Mouse is occasionally laggy
This problem experienced by myself and many other users (as reported on review forums): after a while of usage (days to months), the computer will stop responding to the keyboard or mouse even though it can "see" it. This has nothing to do with batteries, and cannot be fixed until the user jumps through hoops. Search around the internet if you experience this problem, though the technique to fix it is not failproof. I have had to go through the process twice in two days now.
Microsoft's included Bluetooth transceiver is not truly Bluetooth compatible. You -must- use the included transceiver with the Bluetooth mouse and keyboard (except for rare lucky people, but Microsoft says this is a tiny percentage of people), but the transceiver doesn't support the full spectrum of Bluetooth peripherals that other transceivers do, such as PDAs. If you plan to use a Bluetooth PDA with the transceiver, forget it. In most cases you cannot use the included transceiver for the mouse and keyboard, and a second non-Microsoft transceiver for PDAs. One transceiver per computer, tops. I wish I had read the user reviews before I purchased this product. I plan to buy a Logitech MX Duo in the near future to replace this flawed product.
Rating:
Summary: Looks pretty, feels great, however lacks so many ways
Review: The mouse is where the trouble begins. First of all, JUST TO LET ALL OF YOU KNOW, you can use the microsoft optical desktop and intellimouse with your INTERNAL bluetooth stack. I said internal, that is right is will work. BUT BUT BUT, your bluetooth adapter has to be HID supportive, meaing human interface device. HID is only made on the newest of the new bluetooth chips, maybe if you just bought your laptop with internal bluetooth it will work, because it is newer stack and HID supportive. Check with your manufactoring company and ask the bluetooth is HID supportive. Also, do this if you are in the buy for a new laptop, verhy important for any type of functionality for bluetooth in the future. Bluetooth HID is pretty much the 2.0 of bluetooh. Your optical desktop MAY work with your internal bluetooth, as I had hoped for with mine, I had wires and having to hook anything up to my computer when I transfer my laptop back and forth to the library, no wires. Good luck. I see this product as being great for laptop users tired of having to take out their laptop and hook things up all the time, looking for a solution bluetooth solves all of that. HID is the only constraing. Check before you buy anything.
Rating:
Summary: Great Device
Review: The thing that turns most people off is the price of the device, but its actually pretty cheap! A MS Bluetooth reciever costs $... and it comes with this kit. Its a great deal for a great price. The only downfall is that the mouse drains batteries like crazy, although a battery charger solves all that.
| 
