Does the Darfon Bluetooth keyboard work with Windows XP?

While researching the TabletKiosk portable Bluetooth Keyboard that is now offered on their website for the eo I noticed that it looks just like the ThinkOutside Shasta keyboard for the Blackberry.  Further investigation revealed that the Shasta is manufactured and sold by Darfon as the G950.  The Darfon web page shows it supports Windows Mobile and Palm devices but doesn’t mention Windows XP at all, which it needs to support for UMPCs.  It would be a driver issue and in fact some Bluetooth keyboards like the ThinkOutside Stowaway Bluetooth require no additional drivers to run under WinXP so if that’s the case then the Darfon, ThinkOutside Shasta, and the TabletKiosk versions would all work on any Windows XP device, including UMPCs and the Sony UX.  This would be really nice as the Darfon keyboard folds in half and looks like it is near full size and most importantly has a dedicated number row which the ThinkOutside Stowaway is sorely lacking.  Does anybody know first-hand if these three keyboards will in fact work under Windows XP out of the box?  Here are some photos of the three versions so you can see why I think they are the same keyboard:

TabletKiosk keyboard  Stowaway Shasta  Darfon G950a

-jk

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