Microsoft launches Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 and 7000

The march of mouse progress apparently never stops, and Microsoft just announce a pair of new ones to drive that point home. The Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 (after the break) is the more portable one of the bunch, with a snap-in 2.4GHz USB receiver packed inside a desktop-sized laser mouse. The Wireless Laser Mouse 7000 (pictured) sacrifices a bit of portability for a rechargeable batteries -- with a horizontal charging dock to host the mouse when times are rough and juice is scarce. Both mice include Microsoft's HD Lasers and a few Vista-friendly buttons. You can pick them up in March fo $50 and $70, respectively.

[2late2die Posted Feb 5th 2008 2:18PM]

"Vista friendly buttons" - wtf does that suppose to mean?! Do ordinary mice use buttons that are incompatible with vista?? I hate ad-speak - it's a mouse - talk about its slickness, or lightness, or convenience but don't give me "vista friendly buttons" crap.

[(Unverified) Posted Feb 5th 2008 6:28PM]

How many buttons does this thing have? It looks to be two but that can't be it, right? Right?...

[aughscreennames Posted Feb 5th 2008 7:02PM]

People really need to do their research about logitech bluetooth. It requires a dongle! Just like RF, except its a big ass USB stick dongle instead of the mini dongles on the RF mice. Logitech does not use standard bluetooth, they use an extremely bad proprietary version. You MIGHT (emphasis on might) be able to get it working with your laptop's internal bluetooth chip but you wont be able to use official logitech drivers with it.

Logitech bluetooth also does not perform remotely as well as RF mice. It has severe connection problems which produces jumbled mouse movement and disconnects.

[sahaskatta Posted Feb 5th 2008 8:00PM]

does this have more buttons than the left+right click and scroll? please tell me it has a back & front button at least!

[Gurrchan Posted Feb 5th 2008 7:37PM]

Microsoft needs to release their Desktop Keyboard 8000 in black, with numpad.

They're always pumping out mouses/mices, why?!

[doctari Posted Mar 25th 2008 4:05PM]

Dummies...it have front and back buttons in a clever design under the left side.