m$ to Google: do not dare take away from us what isn't ours

[Peter]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Peter wrote:

>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Brandon Sandrowicz wrote:
>
>> They may have joined the input device market later, but most of their input 
>> devices are top-notch in my experience.  This is one area where Microsoft 
>> really excels.  I think a lot of it is due to the fact that they really 
>> rely on standards here.  There is no 'MS Windows-only' lock in.  Most of 
>> their devices are USB-HID compliant.
>
> My mouse is m$, optical. The quality is good. However I looked iside. Imho, 
> the mouse has a single bug: the logo. It should say Agilent-Cypress. That 
> sort of explains the quality ;-). You see, most supermarkets who rebrand 
> things can't afford to rebrand all the little parts that go into 'their' 
> products ...

Oh, and I forgot about the undocumented packet it sends when it turns 
the led power low after a few moments of inactivity ... it causes a 
button 5 event in X11 which scrolls the page I am looking at by a 
little. And it is not deterministic ... that probably means they really 
did the firmware ;-(.

Peter
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