Microsoft Explorer Touch Mouse - Black reviews

I love this mouse, it looks like some people have had a hard time with it, but mine worked very well. Pluged in the USB, my Windows 7 did its thing to install it. Then it worked… I love it,

I have had the exact same experience as Bill. This is the worst experience I have ever had with a mouse.

I have returned one thinking it may have been an issue with the particular mouse but the replacement still is not functional as a mouse. Just writing this review I have had to use the keyboard for navigation and selecting text because it easier and quicker than using this mouse.

It does not operate well enough as a mouse to warrant any fee.

This must be the worst mousing experience I've ever had. I installed the mouse on Windows 7 64-bit and performance was so bad, I thought it must be because I needed to download the mouse software from MS (no disk is included in the pack). Having installed the Mouse and Keyboard Center software, the computer now knows about the mouse and how to set up its model-specific features, but the mouse itself is still far below par.

Intermittently, the mouse becomes very unresponsive, as if it's polling only once every couple of seconds. This causes the cursor to dart everywhere but where you want it. This problem is repeatable between my laptop and desktop computer.

The hepatic feed-back on the scrolling strip just feels wrong, but fortunately you can turn it off.

The touch strip itself is just not as responsive as even the most budget mouse. My MS Basic optical mouse far outperforms this device.

Even on sale at $29, this mouse is just not worth the money.

I use this mouse as a travel mouse for my slate PC and it does a great job. The scrolling takes a little to get used to but once you master it it's great.

Not so sure about the bad experiences others have had. I've had none of those problems.

All I had to was plug the receiver in, and once the driver installed it was all set to go. Very smooth mouse and touch scrolling is so easy to use. Also if you download the software you can customize the buttons which I find very useful. Definitely a good buy!

It was a bit confusing having no installation disk, and no file to download, but once the driver had installed itself, it became a really useful mouse. Able to be used on a variety of surfaces, responsive, and the scroll feedback takes some getting used to but still an interesting feature.