The mouse is one of the most essential hardware components of a computer. Without it, navigating most standard visual interfaces can be quite a hassle. Like any computer hardware, however, a mouse can ...

In recent years computers and operating systems have greatly evolved. At a time, users had to use commands to navigate through file managers. Like most of the other operating systems, Windows also ...

A new user interface--the "mouse gesture"--is slowly winning converts among software developers who hope to simplify repetitive tasks in computer applications. Department Editor Evan Hansen runs the ...

On this day, 35 years ago, Xerox released the first commercially available computer intended for use with a mouse. The Star, as it was called, wasn’t a particularly big success, but Xerox’s work ...

For an innovation meant to make it easier to use a computer, its name was surprisingly unwieldy: “X-Y position indicator for a display system.” The word “mouse” was much catchier, and that’s what the ...