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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 28 2013 @ 04:59 PM EDT |
I'm not sure that is so innovative as it is just a third
wheel mounted on top. All mechanical mice have two wheels
mounted inside. The idea of a mouse or track ball is where
the innovation was.
The real innovation from M$ is using extortion to force
competators go away or pay license fees for bogus patents.
Actually, I think the Mob operates like that too, so I guess
not.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, March 28 2013 @ 05:57 PM EDT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll_wheel
"""In 1985 NTT, Japan and ETH, Switzerland (Ohno, Fukaya &
Nievergeld) jointly developed the first scrolling mouse called the "Mighty
Mouse". That had the scroll wheel accessible on the side.[3] Somewhere
between 1989 - 1993 Dan Venolia of Apple develops a mouse with a thumb-wheel
accessible on the side,[3] and is filed in 1992 as U.S. Patent 5,313,230. In
1995, Mouse Systems released ProAgio, the first commercial mouse with a scroll
wheel but few people notice.[4][5][6] In 1997 Microsoft files the U.S. Patent
5,912,661 for a mouse with a combined button and scroll
wheel."""
The other thing that I know about MS 'inventing' mice is that when the first
optical mouse was developed, MS purchased the first six months production,
apparently a contract with no quantity limits, just to stop Logitech getting
any. That way it would appear that MS were 'innovative' with a new mouse, yet
they did not do any of the development and merely used their massive amounts of
cash.
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