What mouse do you use?

I've been using the same model 3-button IBM mouse ( made by Logitech ) 7 to 8 hours a day for the last six years,  with no ill effects. It's plain, simple and just keeps on working. My fingers have grown so accustomed to the three large buttons that even though I've tried 8 or 9 new input devices over the years, I always come back to this one.

 Jim

Just remembered another funky deal when I switched over to the Evoluent.  In order to use the scroll wheel, the window had to have focus.  With my dell mouse, I can scroll in a window simply by mousing over it.  I pity the mouse software company has that has to design for subtleties such as this, but I think that was the last straw for me. 

Just remembered another funky deal when I switched over to the Evoluent.  In order to use the scroll wheel, the window had to have focus.  With my dell mouse, I can scroll in a window simply by mousing over it.  I pity the mouse software company has that has to design for subtleties such as this, but I think that was the last straw for me. 

In my opinion such things should be implemented by the OS, not by hardware drivers.

Andreas Zieritz:

In my opinion such things should be implemented by the OS, not by hardware drivers.

FWIW, I do believe that is happening and will continue to happen -- that exists today to various extents in graphics, output, and now input peripherals. However, there will likely always be "tweaking" done at the hardware (and therefore driver) level to extend what does not exist at the "basic" level and to provide the "market differentiation" that the individual vendors need to survive. Now, this does not mean that the OS vendor needs to have exclusive control -- all that needs to be said is OpenGL and WINTAB regarding that :) -- but it would be pretty safe to say that advancements in technology (and "support" for that at the OS level) will continue to happen.