July 26th, 2007
The Macintization of Windows’ Mice
Being a powerful interface widget for Mac users for quite some time now, Exposé has now come to Windows either.
Well, sort of. When I first experienced this, I actually thought it was the recently installed beta version of Safari for Windows, who had secretly smuggled this onto my computer.
Though, alleging this being from Apple, it would have been a working but poor piece of design. Later on I remembered I had also upgraded the drivers for my Microsoft Intellipoint Mouse. Bingo ! The latest Intellipoint Driver installer switches the auto-scroll "click" function of your mouse wheel to this all-open-app-view without asking, so you have to discover this by incident or (like me) accident at some time.
With so many Windows under ones hood, you’re now officially a pimp (and all of this completely advertently, of course…). 
Tags: Apple, copycat, Exposé, innovation, Intellipoint, Interface, Microsoft, mouse driver, Windows
Posted by Bardo N. Nelgen at 10:46 CET
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