Microsoft Metro mouse leaks with blue laser for $20
updated 01:20 pm EDT, Thu September 16, 2010
Microsoft Metro BlueTrack mouse leaks early
A new Microsoft mouse has surfaced on Russian website TheVista ahead of any sort of official announcement. Called the Metro Mouse, it will be part of Microsoft's blue laser-based BlueTrack mouse line. Also, at a projected retail price of $20, it would be the cheapest in the range, below even the $30 Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500. The mouse is ambidextrous, like others in the range.
Blue lasers let mice work better on unusual surfaces that aren't usually ideally suited, such as desks or mouse pads. Whether it will be available in colors other than pink remains to be seen. The leak shows that the mouse will be available in March.
Its name is unusual as it borrows the same codename that Microsoft uses for the highly stylized interfaces of the Zune HD and Windows Phone 7.
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I don't want...
...a leaky mouse. Are they going to make a left handed version that has that cable on the other side? And it is releasing in MARCH?! Seriously, how long does it take someone to develop a mouse that has no real innovation?