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Validity announces support of Windows Biometric Framework

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Validity Sensors, a developer of biometric hardware, has announced that it will be supporting Microsoft’s Windows 7 Biometric Framework.

The hardware used during a Microsoft demonstration of the framework at the WinHEC 2008 conferences was Validity’s VSF201 fingerprint sensor. Microsoft’s Biometric Framework is built to provide users with greater ease of integrating biometric devices into their PCs. [end] 

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