Inspired by the Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer 3.0 from 2003, Microsoft has recently released the new Microsoft Classic IntelliMouse. Offering the same classic ergonomic look and feel, the new Microsoft Classic IntelliMouse offers improved performance and additional features made possible by technology today.
In remembering the classic mouse, we sat down with Simon Dearsley, Devices Design Director at Microsoft, to discuss the legacy of the Microsoft IntelliMouse and what you can expect from the newest version of the iconic IntelliMouse range.
The IntelliMouse is iconic – I don’t know anyone who hasn’t used one at some point in their lives. I used them in the various schools and university I attended, at my DIY store job, at friends’ places – this thing was everywhere.
Logitech should bring back their ergonomic trackball
Logitech should bring back the MX300 optical mouse.
…an A4Tech WOP-35.
Period.
… best business mouse for right-handed people.
I used to love the ‘Intellipoint’ software these mice came with, because you could customize the buttons on a per-application basis. But then they SERIOUSLY gimped the software by downgrading and removing this functionality. To this day, I still have no idea why they did that (or if they eventually added it back), but I was definitely NOT happy.
Edited 2018-06-27 17:32 UTC
That seems more like it would have to be done to address security concerns and limit/reduce Win32 bloat.
Microsoft’s current mouse software has per-app custom settings
Microsoft, don’t forget the left-hand version, please
Never used. Far less popular than Logitech or OEM mouses (HP, Fujitsu…)
Being right-handed but mouse ambidextrous, I would never buy an asymmetric mouse.
I don’t see a dpi listed. I need a high dpi mouse for Linux ironically.
I am still using one. Bought a bunch of them to make sure I don’t have to use some other crap, as is usually bundled with PCs.
Unfortunately the reissue costs a multiple.
They should bring out a Bluetooth version if they really want to show they’ve arrived in the 21st century. Just saying.
1.) Start software that shows latency between PC and Bluetooth hardware you want tested
2.) Move object in path between Bluetooth sender and receiver or turn on anything that makes noise in the same frequencies.
3.) Watch massive lag-spikes in software from step 1, often up to .5 second.
If you cannot feel the extra delay (lots of delay in the rest of the signal path already) then you clearly belong in either the old or slow category…. or both. Bluetooth is so 2000’s.
Do you also use a Bluetooth keyboard? I bet it isn’t even encrypted (most aren’t) so all your neighbors can listen in on everything you type.
OK this just proves you are a troll. Bluetooth is by its very nature encrypted, at least for anything above Bluetooth 2.1; it’s the other non-Bluetooth wireless adapters that could risk someone listening in.
Edited 2018-06-30 10:46 UTC
Huh… if the last model dates to 2003, the one on my desk must be older than I thought… I’d have guessed maybe 10 years tops, not 15…
It was last updated in 2003, I bought one back in 2008-2009. They sold for many years after. Maybe three years ago I went to replace the worn down mouse, and was dismayed at the fact it was missing.
I just purchased two of the new ones.
how about the return of the wide bottom basic mouse?
old stocks are getting pretty thin – which is why I bought 20 a few years back.
best left/right handed mouse I ever found (maybe not as good for smaller hands, but works great for my midsized ones)
…apparently not in central Europe. I used some late Intellimouse tops few times at my old girlfriend place; only she have it from all the people I knew. Maybe because MS mouses were kinda expensive… basic Logitech and A4tech models, those were everywhere.