The excuses sound the same. Keyboards and mice are plentiful. Logitech and Microsoft keyboards and mice plug in and work just fine. Ditto for a Logitech force-feedback joystick. Those will come later this year.
Communications is a go.
USB cameras and video cameras abound. There's an abundance of USB-based videoconferencing cameras. But an Intel USB ProShare camera took two days of debugging to work with Microsoft NetMeeting. Comm devices are like that. Scanning wasn't what I wanted.