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In a week full of excitement and hilarity- Laura and Paul stopped to ponder it all and share their ideas with you. Here's what's happening: Classic games coming to the browser  [04:38] The new MOUSE  [11:08] Games on the Surface  [08:09] More Windows Phones  [14:15]

Here is an historic video of a person in our usability labs trying an early build of Windows 95 which shows an example of the kind of problems many people had: This video is from 1993. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/05/18/creating-the-windows-8-user-experience.aspx

There’s a great guide over at How to Geek this week on enabling two-finger scrolling on your laptop’s trackpad. What’s two finger scrolling, you ask? Well, rather than clicking and dragging the scrollbar on the page, you simply slide two-fingers down your trackpad, and the page scrolls – neat!…

Over in the US, October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and all over the country a dizzying array of fundraising events have kicked off to support research into the disease. This year, the Microsoft Hardware team are leaning in to support the cause. They note a shocking from the…

Call me a girl, but I like pink. I’ve never had a pink mouse though, although I’ve seen plenty for sale. But now there’s one available that’s tempting me to purchase, not just for its color but because I know it’s for a good cause. This upcoming special edition of the Wireless Mobile Mouse…

Gestures are getting hot, are they not? Lately, I’ve noticed a bunch of apps that let you use mouse gestures to execute predefined commands or actions. But this is hardly a new trend…apps like StrokeIt, the Windows-only global mouse gestures app were getting attention as far back as spring 2007. So…

Microsoft Hardware has been impressing Channel 10 for years now, and today they continued that tradition. This morning Microsoft unveiled the world's most advanced tracking technology, Microsoft BlueTrack Technology, which allows us to take our mice anywhere and work with more success…

Anyone who knows me well knows I have a thing for the color pink when it comes to my electronics. I don't care if it's too girly or if represents the absolute opposite of "girl-power", I just love pink. And green....but mostly pink. I've had a pink Razr, a pink case for my Blackberry…

The Microsoft Presenter Mouse 8000 is a multifunction mouse that is an integrated slide presenter, laser pointer, media remote control, and mouse all in one device. With its slide presenter controls, you can navigate through your presentations from up to 30 feet away and the media remote lets you…

I recently dropped by the Windows Vista Team blog the other day, and I found this great post on how Intellipoint software interacts with Vista. Like many people, I had not bothered installing the software for my Microsoft keyboard & mouse since Windows has no problem finding the hardware on its…