Ironically, this announcement came nearly 40 years to the day that the first Microsoft Mouse was sold. That happened on May 2, 1983, and it would be the first of many, many PC mice of all ...

On April 19, 1999, that indeed happened with PC mice. That's the date, 25 years ago today, that Microsoft first revealed its latest mouse, the IntelliMouse Explorer. Just in case you might be ...