Microsoft! Please bring back the Trackball Explorer mouse!

I also own a Trackball Explorer 1.0.

If I had any inkling that Microsoft was going to quit making these things, I'd have bought as many as I could to have a supply of fresh trackballs and potential spare parts.

Everyone I know who has owned one has said the same thing: it was the best, most comfortable trackball they have ever used.

As it stands, I'm sending mine to a reputable shop for refurb and looking to purchase another used one to get that refurb'd as well.

I think many people would gleefully buy a modernized version of the Trackball Explorer. I wish Microsoft would start making these again or even sell the design to another company, like CH Products, CST Microspeed, or ITAC Systems.

I would buy a baker's dozen, just so that I never go without one again.

Yes for sure the greatest mouse ever produced.

I've one for 15 years I think and bought 2 others a few years ago before it is too expensive and I'm using 2 on two different computers...

I pray every day for the revival of the trackball

I'll buy ten : 5 wireless and 5 wired

but.... I think they're are not interested with our money lol

Really the greatest waste of intelligence stopping this production

Count me in...

Bring back a "wireless" version of the Microsoft Trackball Explorer!!!

I own a Microsoft Trackball Explorer mouse which I think is the greatest mouse ever created. I believe that the decision to discontinue it was shortsighted when it remains so popular that people are willing to pay hundreds of dollars for a used one or as much as $500 for a new one as seen on eBay and Amazon. Will Microsoft consider bringing an updated model that would include wireless capability? If they do, put me down for 5 of them to start! (Heck, I'd even buy a few reasonable priced wired versions)

Never going to happen. And for one simple reason, MS would lose their accessory revenue and have no market for "new" and "improved" mice...

Think about it, a mouse that can lasts for over 16 years thru regular use (I bought the three I own in 1999 on sale at CompUSA for $50 each) and all still going strong. A mouse that requires almost no cleaning

and maintenance - the only part which seems to wear are:

• the steel ball bearings under ball (and they can be replaced with cheap ruby bearings that last forever)
• button spring - replaceable with new springs from most any hobby store

The only way to get "new" ones are probably from a knock-off company that 3d scans and prints out the form in a 3d printer and uses an off-the-shelf mouse innards. MS could make a fortune, but some enterprising individual with a 3d printer will beat them to it.

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