Microsoft Touch Mouse Review Updated

Having recently released a new driver for its Touch Mouse, Microsoft asked us to re-test this touch-sensitive mouse to see for ourselves what improvements had been made.

First of all we manually uninstalled the old driver, then we downloaded and installed one of the new drivers from the Microsoft website:
- Intellipoint 8.2 32 bits,
- Intellipoint 8.2 64 bits.

We noticed two main improvements, both which made the mouse feel quite different to handle:

1 - when entering text (in an online form, for example), the mouse temporarily blocks the touch-controls to stop you accidentally moving the cursor or moving back or forwards a page with the slightest movement of your hand. That's a real relief, as you don't end up accidentally going back to the previous web page and losing everything you'd already entered in the form! Microsoft has therefore managed to correct one of this mouse's most frustrating flaws.

2 - the virtual scroll wheel wasn't accurate or responsive enough in the original mouse, particularly when trying to scroll slowly. The new drivers certainly bring greater precision, but the wheel still lacks responsiveness and there's a noticeable delay between your command and the reaction on screen. This is even more noticeable when you compare this virtual system with a physical scroll wheel. The virtual scroll wheel's performance was so inadequate in our original test that we hadn't really noticed this lag the first time around!

Apart from that, we didn't notice any other changes with the new drivers. In other words, the sensor still can't handle movements faster than 1.5 m/s!

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