seriously OT: Bill Gates still greedy after all these years.

Bay Area Dave · 2004-04-11T00:37:20+00:00

While shopping in a faraway Costco I got intrigued by an optical cordless mouse for $36 (Microsoft), so after making sure it fit my hand, I repackaged it and threw it in the cart.As I went to install it I see a warning tag on the connector to install the software first. I rip the CD package open, insert the CD, shutdown other apps and prepare for my new toy. Double click on "setup.exe" and it all turns to sh*t. The mouse only works on XP, 2000, etc.; not Windows 98! Jeez! It's just a frickin' mouse!I go online to see what's up and damn if EVERY Microsoft mouse I checked on won't work with 98. Thanks a bunch, Billy boy!I check out Logitech optical cordless mice and sure enough, as expected, they will work with 95 and 98, as well they should. Don't ya just love capitalism at it's finest?? sigh.dave

Apr 11, 2004 61 Replies

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Mark & Juanita 22 years ago

Thanks, I didn't realize there was a newer version.

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Tim Douglass 22 years ago

Finally got around to looking at this. It looks like a great product and source code is available. I've not worked with Borland Delphi, but this is the type of app that might inspire me to learn. Thanks for the tip!

Tim Douglass

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