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Wow this product was approved to be released? My god.

Well, Its not that bad like PCWorld is thinking it is. Now, if the person who made the first mouse would have thought of another design, we would be used to it by now.

P.S. Sorry for my poor English!

I suppose we should all revert to the ultimate, fantastic and genial (and also branded) one button mouse? That'll end the confusion for those of us um a bit more obtuse than the rest of us shall we say, unable to handle more than one button without being klutz about it?

Gamers on the other end, would have serious problems with a single button mice...

Could the implication be that simple gamers of any age can handle OpenOffice better than people using their computers for serious stuff???

On the other hand, is OpenOffice trying to create a closed-captive market with this new (for fee not free) uniquely weird and oh so ugly, proprietary (non-open) mouse? I bet you this mouse feels ergonomically less than satisfactory? So instead of touch typing OpenOffice documents with both hands, we'll have to readjust to being ambidextrous sort of? One hand typing twice as fast on the regular keyboard, the other, typing on the mouse keyboard?



"Write once. Run everywhere."

Isn't that the fundamental goal of Java?

I personally think it is a ridiculous idea. Unless it works the same everywhere for free... So they give us free software, but wants us to pay for sub-standard mice? OpenOffice must have hired some marketeer from hell. Something somewhere went wrong...

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He who has most fun, learns best.
~ John Cleese

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
~Brian W. Kernighan

PS: Let's keep it simple OpenOffice; since the original one button mouse, the Apple Wheel is a much better idea!

Poorly named article, PC World. What is so confusing about this mouse? Logitech mice have a lot of buttons, this gear is for the Open Office Suite.. so there is nothing wrong with that. The only issue I do have, is the price is "way" too high. That is the only disappointing thing.

Shinobi, on 08 November 2009 - 10:05 AM, said:

Hello Shinobi and welcome to the PC World Forums.

Multiple buttons only hinder usability and manageability.

However, if the OpenOffice Team actually did that to integrate the keyboard into the mouse, then the team is in the right, because integration of the mouse and keyboard will only enable more usability, considering that you wouldn't have to reach all over the place to type.

So let's get this straight. The open source software is free... but the 18-button mouse is going to set you back three times as much as a regular mouse? Seems sort of odd. What's next... a 300-key keyboard that costs $600? LOL