Microsoft toying with multi-touch mouse

Posted on Monday, July 05 2010 @ 20:20 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Tech Report wrote a couple of days ago that Microsoft may be planning to debut a multi-touch mouse:
A number of European retailers have added listings for a "Microsoft Arc Touch Mouse," and Redmond registered the arctouchmouse.com domain several months ago. The online listings suggest a street price similar to that of Apple's own multi-touch Magic Mouse, which was introduced last October.

If the Arc Touch is indeed a multi-touch mouse, some will no doubt exclaim that this is yet another example of Microsoft pillaging an Apple design. However, it's worth noting that Microsoft was researching several multi-touch mouse technologies (PDF) before the Magic Mouse materialized.


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