Microsoft Research: Buttons Beat Multitouch Mouse

Always interesting to see the giants bashing each other. Here, Microsoft basically says it's better to have real buttons.




Meanwhile, Apple's spindoctors call their product Magic Mouse. For a product that has no affordances for it's new functionality, it's a very flattering name. Seems to me that the new features are hard to discover, pretty hard to remember, and I'm worried about triggering functionality by accident when I handle the mouse. But, to be fair, I only used it for a minute in a store, so who am I to bash it.