Microsoft launches Fingerprint Reader for your "convenience"
Microsoft is launching their new USB MS Fingerprint Reader, which will be available bundled with the Optical Desktop (for $110), with the Wireless IntelliMouse Explorer (for $85), or alone for $55—it does not appear that they are being bundled with their Bluetooth gear, unfortunately. Microsoft wants us to use the biometric device to keep track of login credentials in XP and online, but so long as they insist that the device is to be used for convenience and not security we'll be positively sure to not buy one (what's the point, really, since there are plenty of other options out there?). That, and the fact that it vaguely resembles HAL9000, are we right? Are we right?
