I just bought a new mouse. It has sweet mousing skills. Seriously it’s Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 Pro .Net Edition with Useless Default Zooming Technology. Okay, I added everything past the 6000 there, but jumpin jehosophat whose in charge of naming this stuff? Why the 6000? Why don’t we just start using Guids to name our products, that’d be about as memorable. So let me start again.

Good news everyone, I just bought the new Microsoft A5234615-12C6-4a03-A86A-38DDDBCDE604. It’s sweet. It’s got a laser (with double finger quote, ala Dr. Evil) so it’s action is the best action I’ve experienced. Action. There I said it again. I’ve actually uttered embarrassing grunts of pleasure when mousing with this thing.

One thing though, I just don’t get the zoom feature that replaces the default “forward” behaviour of the front side button. This seems like a cool feature, but the default behaviour? WTH? Is this what passes for feature discoverability? Annoy the user? Beat him about the head and neck with said feature? If so, mission successful, I’m quite aware of the feature. Sigh. Quit fracking with my buttons!

Anyway, the new mouse is much better than my previous mouse, the Wireless Intellimouse Explorer 2.0 .Net pro edition with Random LowBattery Notification technology. Yes. Much better action. Hee hee.

Let’s hope they’ve improved on the Random LowBattery Notification Technology because I’m left with a pile of batteries that may or may not keep my pen light shining brightly. Nobody knows.

So, in conclusion, thumbs up on the hot mouse action.