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My thoughts of course beginning with Microsoft Mouse Mischief SDK. So, here's the thought

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someone at Microsoft probably some underpaid intern -- who was probably trying very hard to keep their

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job after the summer ended --

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if you're listening Microsoft don't let them stay...let them go...yeah.

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They decided to invent a technology where you could take a set of young students -- like, elementary

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school level -- give a classroom of students each their own wireless mouse and then set up a projector.

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On the projector, have a shared environment where all these students -- like, 20+ students

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-- with their wireless mice could interact on-screen.

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Some goofball thought, "hey, it's a good idea to get already over-sugared, overly-hyper kids to share

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a computer screen with mice."

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ADD is going to kick in very soon here people.

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There's going to be a lot of kids, a lot of mouse pointers going all over the screen.

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I would try this myself by-the-way, but, in Microsoft infinite wisdom that is about the size of a small

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pumpkin seed. They only made this available for 32-bit versions of office.

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The world has run on 64bit for some time.

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Microsoft sells their OS, primarily now in 64bit. And, mouse mischief runs only on 32bit.

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It's kinda a nice way of kicking the public school system for having old tech, but, eh...

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So, you got ADD kids, you got classroom focus -- or lack of classroom focus -- and you can thank Microsoft

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for it. Well, they've made this entire thing free; because, let's be honest, no one in their right mind

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would pay for it.

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But if you want it you can go to microsoft.com and I think it's called multi-point.

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If you want to do a search for it it's mouse mischief in the Microsoft search area, powered by Bing.

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You can check out mouse mischief.

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Free download for Office 2007 and 2010, full versions or trials or betas...

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...if you're still cheap. And, you can grab that sucker if you run 32bit office or are using their on-the-run

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installation they provided for beta testers and you can try it out yourself.

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There's also this very, very awkward video that accompanies mouse mischief that talks about how Microsoft

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is taking the world into the future...by, distracting small children.

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But, yeah, go watch that and comment about it in the comments of this video.

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If you have concerns, questions or your own thoughts; I don't want to hear them, I want to see them,

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so, video responses please.

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'Till next time.