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Microsoft adds mice with Windows Button
Microsoft is releasing the Sculpt Comfort Mouse and the Sculpt Mobile Mouse, the company's very first mice with a dedicated Windows button. The $39.95 Sculpt Comfort Mouse has a blue touch sensitive area, pressing it will bring up the Start Menu or make it act as Windows Key, but you can also define other functions using swipe gestures.
The $29.95 mobile version does not have the touch sensitive area though, the Sculpt Mobile Mouse only has a button that acts as Start button or Windows button.
Microsoft has launched a new pair or rodents aimed at helping users make the most of their new Windows 8 PC systems. The Sculpt Comfort Mouse is equipped with a touch-sensitive blue strip which also acts as a Windows Start Button. The Sculpt Mobile Mouse is, as you would expect, a compact mouse. It also includes a Start Button, just above its 4-way scroll wheel. Both of these mice are wireless, connecting via Bluetooth.
“These are the first mice from Microsoft to include a Windows button on them, giving you quick and easy access to specific features in Windows – and, in the case of the Sculpt Comfort Mouse, more advanced functionality in Windows 8,” wrote Brandon Le Blanc on the Windows Experience Blog.
This button is placed behind the 4-way scroll wheel. (On my present mouse I have a DPI settings toggle in this position and usually press it accidentally about once or twice per day). That is the beginning and end of the Sculpt Mobile Mouse Windows 8 optimisation feature list.
BlueTrack sensor
As previously mentioned both these new rodents are wireless Bluetooth devices. They also use Microsoft’s BlueTrack sensor which “works on virtually any surface”. The wee Sculpt Mobile Mouse is said to be available in May at a suggested retail price of $29.95. The right-handed Sculpt Comfort Mouse will not be released until June and has a suggested retail price of $39.95.
Source:Hexus
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#4605504 Posted on: 05/27/2013 03:06 PM
very useful. i already use mouse 4 button as windows button.
very useful. i already use mouse 4 button as windows button.
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#4605508 Posted on: 05/27/2013 03:08 PM
Microsoft. Go home.
Microsoft. Go home.
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#4605513 Posted on: 05/27/2013 03:14 PM
You're drunk Microsoft, go home.
But it's not a horrible idea at least...
Microsoft. Go home.
You're drunk Microsoft, go home.
But it's not a horrible idea at least...
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#4605534 Posted on: 05/27/2013 03:42 PM
Sort of the same with me, I have my Naga hex 5 button (back middle) mapped for it. I actually use it quite a bit.
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On the one with the blue side button (in this article), it also has touch scrolling. You slide your thumb down and it opens the side app bar, and you slide it up to scroll through them.
very useful. i already use mouse 4 button as windows button.
Sort of the same with me, I have my Naga hex 5 button (back middle) mapped for it. I actually use it quite a bit.
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On the one with the blue side button (in this article), it also has touch scrolling. You slide your thumb down and it opens the side app bar, and you slide it up to scroll through them.
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#4605546 Posted on: 05/27/2013 03:54 PM
As if I don't already mistakingly hit the Windows Key enough when I meant to hit CRTL or ALT.
Still loving my G9x.
As if I don't already mistakingly hit the Windows Key enough when I meant to hit CRTL or ALT.
Still loving my G9x.
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#4605597 Posted on: 05/27/2013 05:36 PM
What!!!...Just put it back where it was
What!!!...Just put it back where it was
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#4605600 Posted on: 05/27/2013 05:44 PM
They took it from windows and stuck it on a mouse..... ?
Well, at least we know where it is now
They took it from windows and stuck it on a mouse..... ?
Well, at least we know where it is now
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#4605608 Posted on: 05/27/2013 05:54 PM
Hehe.
Hehe.
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#4605610 Posted on: 05/27/2013 05:56 PM
Tapes mouse to corner of LCD
Tapes mouse to corner of LCD
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#4605614 Posted on: 05/27/2013 06:04 PM
Hey yea^ touchscreen....
Tapes mouse to corner of LCD
Hey yea^ touchscreen....
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#4605712 Posted on: 05/27/2013 08:04 PM
As if the windows key was not already annoying enough.
As if the windows key was not already annoying enough.
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#4605743 Posted on: 05/27/2013 08:25 PM
Great. Now I can hit THAT windows key instead of the one on my keyboard. I'll probably be hitting it all the time when I'm gaming and then throw the mouse out of the window. No thanks MS.
Great. Now I can hit THAT windows key instead of the one on my keyboard. I'll probably be hitting it all the time when I'm gaming and then throw the mouse out of the window. No thanks MS.
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#4605783 Posted on: 05/27/2013 09:12 PM
Does it require an always-on camera that can see in the dark to function?
Does it require an always-on camera that can see in the dark to function?
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#4605802 Posted on: 05/27/2013 09:35 PM
Yep^...but you can always put tape over it...
Yep^...but you can always put tape over it...
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Microsoft continue to make no sense to me at all.