So this is the days of product managers on crack …

After having the second Logitech MX1000 mouse middle button broken (not triggering all the times) I thought I really need to buy a new model – in hopes that this would not happen again after 6 months of power-usage…

So I ordered the best new model out there – the Logitext MX revolution, got it just an hour ago – just to find out that the wheel button is abused for switching between normal wheel and a frictionless wheel (which in fact is a fake, as you still got scroll-steps in your windows)

So instead of getting a powerful working new middle button I got this horrible mouse with NO middle button at all :-[ yikes

This really made me think the Logitech’ers are not even building mouses which middle buttons break after 6-12 months, but are really high on crack to ship such a non-standard behaviour as default and then hide the way to switch it off that good …

Yes, right – they implemented a way to turn this crappy “revolution” off – and I found it here … and it’s only 7 steps or so to switch your revolutionary mouse to a normal wheel mouse…

grmpf… I hope this post helps somebody out there to decide on which mouse to buy or how to make the Revolution work as ordered

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PS: why not buy Microsoft mouses? because microsoft pm’s suck even more and do not ship their mice with rechargeable batteries at all – not even in the top models…

PPS: I just found another way to tweak the functions of your logitech MX revolution using uberOptions which I found here at Alex’s blog ... By using this tool I can even change the function of the little top button as middle-click … this prev. only allowed for a so called search-function (which caused simple blank screen in opera…) .. good thing is that the pressing-power required for that button is close to zero, so I can save some energy now :-)

A good thing to buy new products a couple months after launch, so that you can be sure many others already went thru the same hassles as you do… probably…