It is a Real Magic Mouse (for Windows) [Video]

Microsoft’s Touch Mouse for Windows 7 is lots like Apple’s Magic Mouse : The head is a capacitive, multitouch sensor. The adaptation? The Touch Mouse was actually designed to be used by humans.

It’s the smartest touch experience on Windows yet. No surprise, ’cause Microsoft’s designed the Touch Mouse’s drivers and software, that’s what really ties everything together. The ergonomics are quite solid too-unlike the Magic Mouse , that’s passable, but not great. As you’ll be able to guess, the hatches dotted everywhere in the mouse mark the touch area.

The list of gestures is sort of familiar:

• One finger scrolls in any direction inside a window
• Swiping your thumb up and down acts like the back and forward buttons common on Windows mice
• Two fingers to the left or right activates Aero Snap, pinning the selected window to the side; two fingers up or down minimizes or opens minimized windows
• Three fingers-watch for it-activates a Mac OS X Expose-like view, showing your whole windows in a neat grid.

Why, oh why, do we only get these gestures with the Touch Mouse and not natively? (To boot, the Touch Mouse is for Windows 7 only.) An Expose ripoff is the something that’s been missing from Windows 7′s Aero interface, but without delay it’s only component to the Intellimouse software package that incorporates the Touch Mouse. The Touch Mouse shows exactly how touch should work in Windows, but all too often doesn’t, like in HP’s Envy .

It’s a bit pricey at $80 when it comes out in June, but for a taste of what touch has to be like in Windows, it may be worth it. [ Microsoft ]

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