Mac Bluetooth keyboards and non-Mac devices

Your co-worker is WRONG.

The Apple Bluetooth keyboard WILL work with Windows OS.

HOWEVER the keyboard layout in terms of the WINDOWS key and APPLE key are slightly different but he main alphanumeric keys are identical and work fine.  A bit of keyboard remapping will resolve the other keys if required.

Same goes for the Apple Mouse .. it can pair and work with Windows but all of the touch-interface features on the mouse are NOT supported in Windows as Apple do not provide Windows drivers ... but it still works as a point & click input device.

That's what I thought... He cannot make it work with a Mac .. so I asked him to make it work with a Windows computer to see whether it's the Mac or the keyboard.

Would it be technically possible to make it only pair with a certain brand in the first case?

What I meant was ... can Apple set up their keyboards to only work with Apple computers?
Is there such an option in the Bluetooth stack?

Thanks for the link - that did the trick.

There is the option to create Bluetooth devices which only work with a specific driver which in turn works only on a specific OS or even specific hardware.  In terms of keyboards however it would make little sense to do such as thing as they use fairly standard protocols.

Thanks a lot for the solution and the background information.