View this article at: http://dev.macnn.com/articles/05/08/09/ms.beats.apple.design Tuesday, Aug 09, 2005 9:50am Mossberg: Microsoft outclas... Technology guru Walt Mossberg says that Apple's Mighty Mouse takes a backseat to Microsoft's new Wireless Optical Mouse 5000. Despite other glowing reviews, Mossberg says that the Mighty Mouse faces clashing design ideals that make it harder to use than competing products: "But in a stubborn homage to the old dogma, Apple designed the Mighty Mouse so it looks like, and can work like, a one-button mouse.... Microsoft's new model is cordless, like most modern, premium mice. Apple's Mighty Mouse is tethered to the computer with a cord, like most low-end models." The review criticizes Apple's implementation of the dual-click system using a single-button mouse: "I found that the design makes right-clicking slower and clumsier than on a typical Microsoft or Logitech mouse with real buttons.... I found that right-clicking with the Mighty Mouse was unpredictable. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't. We needed to press the right side repeatedly to get a single right click, slowing us down and annoying us, well, mightily."