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New Microsoft Mouse Scrolls Both Ways

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the yes-i-said-it dept.

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?

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  1. Re:Apple had a similar idea! by mattgarnsey · · Score: 0, Redundant

    woah woah woah...

    do you mean to tell me that apple has ideas and microsoft would just take them for use in microsoft products?

  2. Re:/. parrotting Micro$oft product announcements? by sokeeffe · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Whilst I agree that scrolling though source code on a normal display may be considered unusual, think about it for another moment.

    I do a lot of my coding for my job in VB6. When in the VB IDE I have a quite a large toolbox toolbar, a debug window, a properties box, etc all open. The actual area for souce code can be quite small depending on what I'm doing. Also some of the previous programmers in my company tended to have very long source code lines when they were creating strings for display in error messages and I have to scroll quite often to get to the end of these messages.

    I know that it's hardly ideal but then again this isn't an ideal world.