Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse

I recently had to purchase this new mouse from Staples, after I lost the roller ball from my other mouse. It was a rather strange series of events that led to this and isn't something that you could make up. I was fiddling about with the mouse because it would work properly and I removed the cover from over the ball and it then dropped out. It rolled along my desk, off the side and into a large recess in my wall. It then fell to the bottom and there is no way of retrieving it. I was pretty annoyed with myself, but I have been needing to purchase a new mouse for some time now. The mouse, along with a keyboard, is the way in which humans ...  Read the complete review

Gone are the days of picking fluff from your ball, scrapping the crud from your rollers and banging the mouse of the worktop to make it work. The revolution of the optical mouse is here. The Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse will track on any surface, even glass. Theres no need for a mouse mat anymore. The optical mouse is ideal for the laptop user who never knows where they will park their computer. The Microsoft Optical Mouse is wonderful, I used to be plagued with dirt build-up on the rollers of my ball mouse which made things like photo editing and gaming rather annoying where smooth accurate mouse movements were a must. With the optical ...  Read the complete review

I have been quite lucky with the mouse that came supplied with my computer. I have had it nearly 4 years now and never needed to replace it. But over the last few months the ball on the bottom of the mouse has started to become quite difficult to control around the screen so I thought maybe it was time to replace it. Whilst I was in WHSmith’s last week I thought I would have a quick look at the mouses (or is that mice?) that they sold. I was not actually going to buy one but when I saw this Microsoft basic optical mouse for £19.99 I thought I might as well just get it then. So I did. This mouse is compatible with Microsoft windows XP, 2000, ME, 98 ...  Read the complete review

The mouse, the humble little mouse, so often neglected and ignored and taken for granted, and yet so absolutely vital for a decent computing experience. Now, we all know what the mouse is all about, otherwise you wouldn?t be reading this, but just for completeness I?ll give you the basic facts. The mouse (or any kind of pointing device for that matter) is one of the most essential parts of the interface between man and machine. You use the keyboard to enter data and words, but the mouse is the instinctive little tool you use to navigate your way round applications to select and enter and all other good things. In the ...  Read the complete review

If you are looking for a basic mouse will a scroll wheel then look no further. Optical mice have obvious advantages over the traditional ball ones, dudt and other such stuff cannot get get trapped in the moving parts (there aren't any) anf they can be used on almost any surface. Now this mouse isn't going to win any style awards, it is what it is; a functional mouse. It has the two main buttons found on any pc mouse, that is the right and left buttons. There is also a scroll wheel which also acts as third button, although seems to have now become the standard. The software that came with the mouse was easy to install and use on xp, it ...  Read the complete review