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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by greenshackle on Monday June 27, 2016 @01:52PM (#11987947)
Scrolling direction?

Though I'm sure you can change that in the parameters somewhere.

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by nmc on Monday June 27, 2016 @02:18PM (#11988178)
Of course you can. You can also, I think, reverse trackpad scrolling on Windows.

However, I dislike the fact that on MacOs they call the setting "natural scrolling" and that they enable it by default for any trackpad you hook up.

Moreover, since the "Magic Mouse" is basically a mouse with a trackpad for a scrolling wheeel, they also enable reverse scrolling by default for any mouse.

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by DiabloD3 on Monday June 27, 2016 @02:39PM (#11988392)
It's unnatural for anyone that grew up with mice and trackpads.

It's 100% natural for phones. Most people don't realize "natural scrolling" on OSX is phone scrolling.

Makes sense when you realize they ripped the magic trackpad code out of iOS's touch screen event handler.

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Re:Woman wins $10k judgment against Microsoft for forced Win... by greenshackle on Monday June 27, 2016 @03:48PM (#11988932)
Yes, you can reverse it on Windows. I should know, Windows 10 activated 'natural' scrolling on my touchpad when I upgraded. I'm really not sure why.
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