Robin's Ramblings: Microsoft Mouse Mischief

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

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

job after the summer ended --

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

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

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

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

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

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

a computer screen with mice."

ADD is going to kick in very soon here people.

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

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

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

The world has run on 64bit for some time.

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

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

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

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

would pay for it.

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

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

You can check out mouse mischief.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

so, video responses please.

'Till next time.