Microsoft Mouse 2.x

These are drivers provided by Microsoft for the Microsoft BusPort, serial, and PS/2 mice. Introduced in 1983, The Microsoft Mouse is historically important as it was one of Microsoft's earliest hardware products (The other being an Apple II Z-80 CP/M card). The first Mouse for the IBM PC was actually from Mouse Systems, not Microsoft. However, most clone mice emulated Microsoft's serial protocol and DOS driver software interface. The first application designed to make full use of the mouse was Microsoft Word for DOS, and they hyped a product called "Microsoft Windows" (not released until several years later) that was to compete against the upcoming Apple Macintosh and the Mouse Systems based Viscorp Visi On.



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Installation instructions

The 2.5 version was available in two different versions, one for the Bus mouse and one for the Serial mouse.

Product type
System
Vendor
Microsoft
Release date
1984
Minimum CPU
8088
Minimum RAM
64KB
Minimum free disk space
320KB
User interface
Text
Platform
DOS
Download count
35 (1 for release)

Downloads

Download name Version Language Architecture File size Downloads
Microsoft Mouse 2.00 Bus Version (12-31-1983) (5.25-320k) 2.00 Bus Version English 173.13KB 1
Microsoft Mouse 2.50 (Word Bundle) 2.50 English 400.73KB 0
Microsoft Mouse 2.x Serial Version Manual (1984) 2.x English 33.09MB 0

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