Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 29, 2004 02:02 AM
Funny you should say "<tt>of course the mouse is compatible.</tt>"
Why should the mouse be compatible?
And why on earth should office software be not compatible?
Aren't they the same? Aren't they both tools to make you more productive with your computer?
Aren't there mice with more or less buttons, with and without wheels, from a myriad of manufacturers?
Aren't there even 'perversions' like touch pads and trackballs and these little stick-'mice' you find on some laptops?
And yet there are but a few mice protocols. Mice don't differ in important ways on an application level. Why should documents differ in important ways on an office software level?
There can be just one reason: mice vendors trying to not compete on quality --- instead restricting consumers to their brand only --- or was that what a certain office software company tries?
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Of course the mouse is compatible?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 29, 2004 02:02 AMWhy should the mouse be compatible?
And why on earth should office software be not compatible?
Aren't they the same? Aren't they both tools to make you more productive with your computer?
Aren't there mice with more or less buttons, with and without wheels, from a myriad of manufacturers?
Aren't there even 'perversions' like touch pads and trackballs and these little stick-'mice' you find on some laptops?
And yet there are but a few mice protocols. Mice don't differ in important ways on an application level. Why should documents differ in important ways on an office software level?
There can be just one reason: mice vendors trying to not compete on quality --- instead restricting consumers to their brand only --- or was that what a certain office software company tries?
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