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Microsoft Multitouch Mice in the Works

Check out this article about the multitouch mice that Microsoft is working on. While Apple’s Magic Mouse is already on the market, MS isn’t just sitting on their hands and waiting for a third party to come along. Since Windows 7 supports multitouch, MS is definitely trying to get some hardware out that will leverage this capability.

"If the [traditional] mouse pointer is your virtual fingertip, we're giving you a virtual hand," says Dan Rosenfeld, a researcher with Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group in Redmond, WA. There are multitouch surfaces for tabletops, computer monitors, and cellphone screens, he says, but aside from Apple's new device, "there's really nothing addressing the kind of tasks that lots of people do all day long, sitting in front of a desk at a computer."