Well, it seems clear - they write their own software, so it sucks. They
most likely farm off design and manufacturing of peripheral devices to
third party companies - so they don't suck. I can't conceive of MS
itself of it's own capabilities and alleged creativity actually
producing any product that's decent...

Nathan Saper wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Brian Cluff wrote:
> 
> > Ive got one of those optical MS mice.  I got the $29 version without the
> > extra buttons. It does have the 2 normal buttons, plus the 3rd button/wheel.
> > Its been the best mouse that I have ever owned, and I would highly recomend
> > it.
> 
> Just an aside: Isn't it odd that the world's largest software company
> makes shitty software, but the hardware that it sells is decent?  I've
> owned lots of Microsoft mice, joysticks, etc, and they've all worked
> great.
> 
> Makes ya' think...