New Microsoft Mouse Scrolls Both Ways

Library Spoff writes "The BBC are reporting that Microsoft are bringing out a mouse that will use the scroll wheel to tilt as well as roll. The innovation means that users will be able to scroll vertically as well as horizontally without using on-screen navigation bars." How long before I get a trackball embedded in my mouse?

Comments

Re:/. parrotting Micro$oft product announcements?

[pclminion]

You want it so you can easily deal with all the jerks that don't make their webpages to size.

The only way to "deal" with these people is castration.

Re:Hardware solution for a software problem

[Anonymous Coward]

You're right, let's all just agree with Apple that one button is enough. More controls just confuse people and lead to errors, they shouldn't be allowed to exist. This whole scroll wheel thing is an abomination in the first place, why would you need that when you can just drag a scroll bar?

Removing the windows key is a hardware solution to a software problem. I use the windows key in Windows for Windows-R all the time. And I don't use the left control, I have it remapped to the caps lock key where it used to be. (a software solution to a hardware problem?)

In other words, if you never need to scroll sideways, then fine, this mouse isn't for you. But that doesn't mean it's worthless, there are people who do work with sideways scrolling programs on a regular basis, shocking as it may be.