Hardware buttons for Windows 8 tablet and convertible devices

Updated: June 13, 2012
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This paper provides information and guidelines for hardware developers to create the hardware buttons used by Windows 8 when there is no keyboard present.

This information applies to the following operating systems:

Windows 8 Release Preview

Included in this white paper:

Available Architectures
Sample HID Button Report Descriptors
Sample ACPI Description for Button Array