Microsoft makes pretty good mice. This one looks well designed. - Alan Le

shiny! - Mona Nomura

let me guess... closed-source drivers? huh... - Отборнейший бред

Calm down Steven :) - Yuvi

@Silpol: Yeah. They aren't even publishing the device blueprints! Horror! - Yuvi

Looks like someone ate the brown Cheerios this morning. - Akiva

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHHA - Mona Nomura

doubles as a usb bottle opener? - Anthony Citrano

I so didn't expect the conversation on this link. Microsoft makes a mouse and designed it to work against Windows, I don't see anything wrong with that. - Alan Le

@Alan: You just don't understand! The world *will* come to an end if MS doesn't release GPL drivers for all of their hardware products. - Chad Myers

@stevenhodson: There's nothing wrong with either closed or open source... Nothing to get angry for, come on :) - directeur from NoiseRiver

@steven conversely, your comment is extremely smart and to the point, leave alone impersonallity and wittiness... just one little thing tho some people get paid for open source - Отборнейший бред

[obligatory meta-conversation] It's weird how a MOUSE can cause a conversation about opensource drivers. just sayin. - Yuvi

Steven: Aren't we talking about mouse drivers? Is Microsoft planning on charging for the mouse AND the drivers, or just the mouse? If they're charging for just the mouse, isn't it in their interest to make it as usable as possible on as many different OSes as possible? I personally don't care if they make the drivers open or closed source, it just seems to me that open source drivers would spur more sales of the hardware, which is the bit they make their money from. - David Worrell

@David: Err, you mean I need to install SEPERATE MOUSE DRIVERS for Linux? I never quite remember installing one for windows.... (I could be wrong - maybe fancy ones do require sep. drivers. But, I've got a wireless one that needs no special drivers) - Yuvi

Yuvi, that's just the problem and quite astute: some open source (and Apple) evangelists can't help but interlope into any conversation they can to proselytize their politic. - Akiva

posting token freetard crack, also, sexy! - Eric Rice

If its got trackball capabilities, I'm all for it. Once I got used to trackball I never wanted to go back to a movable mouse. - Melanie Reed

@Yuvi I had my Windows desktop and my Linux box on a PS/2 KVM. My Logitech trackball drove Ubuntu nuts. - a runcible MiniMage

Melanie, amen. I'm a Kensington Expert Mouse user. - Akiva

Stephen, amen. - Akiva

I still use a touchpad attached to my PC. Never liked that mice required desk real estate to be useful. Much better to keep the pointer peripheral stationary. - Sprague D

Wow, that looks like RSI waiting to happen... - Brad Brooks

@Sprague D Same here. My desk real estate is too valuable for the price of a mouse. lol - Melanie Reed

I bought an IntelliMouse Explorer 2 to change the one I used with my former powerbook -apple's mouse sucks- and still works fine. The only thing I got from MS that works as it should. - david medina

I love MS keyboards but never liked their mice. Never seem to fit my hand and the scroll wheels always seem to loose. - Scott Bauer