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The premise is totally correct though, and not just "one man's experience": that generation of MS mice changed the mainstream mouse landscape towards laser-based mice.

(I've used such before, on Sun workstations, but PC as users we didn't have that luxury, we had the easy to clog and collect dust, potentially jumpy, not very accurate balls in our mice).



To be fair, they beat the rest of the market to optical mice by a few months, but everybody used the same third party sensor/chip.


The shape was also way better than anything that existed back then (from what I recall).

Since Microsoft don't have anything in the same segment anymore I have a brutally hard time to purchase a mouse today.


We had an optical Mouse Systems mouse for our Mac Classic in the early 90's, they weren't exclusively the domain of expensive Sun machines.


I've recently watched a review of one of those, paired with a computer from back then: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBhA25qjL8Q


I had the Mouse Systems A+ optical mouse with the metal mousepad for my Mac SE, and it was great for the time.




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