![]() ![]() The reason I was so frustrated is because I purchased a quickcam express recently, and I find it to be utter crap, particularly regarding the drivers. The reply came, a very polite reply even, that summed up told me that there’s nothing that could be done. Initially I sent out a support email regarding an older webcam (the quickcam traveller, which is by all standards THE best webcam I’ve seen in the 8 years since I’ve had it) that didn’t have windows XP 圆4 drivers. There will be much more to share as the official Windows 7 launch draws near, but for now I just want to let you know that we’ll be ready when Windows 7 is ready! I think this will make it much easier for people to customize their mice, keyboards, webcams and other hardware attachments to their liking – and to take advantage of some of the features you might not have known how to configure in the past. You’ll be able to click on the picture of a device and configure it, and you’ll even be able to access Logitech software through Device and Printers. The beauty of Devices and Printers is that it provides one place where you can see all the peripherals attached to your computer, including your mouse and keyboard. One of my favorite new features is called Device and Printers. ![]() Rest assured, not only will we be supporting Windows 7, but we’ve been working closely with the Windows 7 team at Microsoft to improve the experience people will have when using our mice and keyboards with Windows 7. After all, I have been using this product since it came out and that means I spent over $100 for it.As one of the product managers in the Control Devices business unit (that’s Logitech’s way of saying mice and keyboards), I’m getting more and more questions about our support for Windows 7, particularly with today’s announcement from Microsoft. Why don’t I just shut up and buy a new one that works with W7? Because the button spacing on the newer trackballs is different enough from the old one to make it an issue for me. Is it really that tough to create a quick driver so we can use perfectly good albeit 12-year old mice? The entire mouse works! All electrical impulses are making it to and being interpreted by the OS. I’m looking at the basic mouse control panel with W7 (64bit) and it has a heck of a lot of functionality that is very close to Mouseware capability but for one issue – it’s evidently capable of recognizing the 3-button mouse as a 2-button mouse only. Why can’t Logitech and Microsoft get together and devise a backwards-compatible driver that allows this to work right? How difficult can this be? Do you really need to build a special driver to map “Double Click” to the middle button? That’s really a toughy? Really? I just don’t get it. I’m not looking for super-configurability here. However, you can not map the middle button to anything. It actually DOES function as the Left, Right, Scroll Wheel and trackball all work in all versions of Windows in “basic mouse” mode. Now I am no hardware driver author nor am I a computer science major but it totally baffles me that a mouse can not function when the only things it has to do are provide electrical impulses for three buttons, one scroll wheel, and one trackball. ![]() SetPoint does not work with it nor does Vista or W7, apparently. Unfortunately, the best mouse you ever made, the *old* MouseMan Wheel (T-BB13), is and has not been supported since Mouseware 9.x. I love Logitech products and have several. ![]()
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