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From: thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Serial Mouse
Summary: I like the new Msoft Mouse
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Date: 9 Nov 88 21:13:15 GMT
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Well, I used the MSC optical mouse for a couple years, but I recently 
switched to the Microsoft Mouse and like it MUCH more. The feel is
better, it seems more accurate to me, it is faster (this does take a
little getting used to) and it is more compatable. I thought the MSC 
mouse was compatable until I tried it with certain applications like
Autocad, AutoSketch, AutoMenu (hmm, these all start with AUTO I wonder
if there is a connection) at any rate, with all these for some reason
the UP/DOWN motion from the mouse got REVERSED! Very unnerving. At any
rate, since I do a lot of desktop publishing, I feel that a mouse is
very important to my work and I just like the feel of the Msoft mouse 
better. You can count on it being compatable with a Msoft mouse because
it is one. One short aside. I recently bought a new Msoft mouse for the
office here, bundled with Win286, and the mouse driver was not as good
as the old one on my DELL SYSTEM300. For some reason, sometimes it would
not load. I would call it a second time, it would say "mouse not found"
on a third try, it would find it. I switched back to the '87 version of
the driver and have had no problems. I think the new version was written
to overcome some problems with Msoft WORD which I don't use.

All in all, optical is nice but it doesn't have the nice feel as the
MSoft one does.