What does Joel Furr think of the invention known as “the third mouse button”?
Joel Furr hates it a lot. Joel Furr makes his living as a software trainer, teaching Microsoft certified classes in things like Windows NT 4.0 and such, but also training end-user applications like, oh, Microsoft Word and Lotus 1-2-3. Consequently, he sees all ranges of computer users, from those who could practically be teaching the courses in question to those who hold their mouse in the air and wave it around like a television remote control. If there’s one thing he’s learned as a trainer, it’s that you want to avoid overloading users, especially the truly inexperienced novice users who suffer from extreme computer phobia, with unnecessary detail. In other words, there are Things End Users Were Not Meant To Know. When you’re training an end user in basic mouse skills, you’re doing well to convince them that it’s actually vaguely useful to be able to use the right mouse button for certain things. Most of the time, you’re only able to get them to realize that one button does one thing
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