Used in the review

Sorry, but I've given up. I wanted to know about the Touch mouse - what it does, how it worked, etc. BUT if I have to scroll through 26 pictures to be drip fed the information - forget it!

If I could read the text and THEN look at more pictures, you would have a reader.

Definitely with jeffholden on this. It's a naff way to present info and even the galleries are not really user-friendly for ease of access. Odd, on a site with so many technically capable people! Like jeff I believe the only good part to this type of article is the back button.

Product galleries are only useful to readers in combination with some sort of other information, but TR seems to want to segregate them into their own area. This gallery should only have been released as part of an article about what it's like to use the mouse. As it is, it's completely vacuous. The only information I get that wouldn't come in higher quality by seeing it in person, unopened on the store shelf, is that it takes two AA batteries. They don't even bother with links to related articles about this product, only links to not-actually-related "related galleries," which I've come to assume are also presented in this awful format.

TR, if you want to fix your galleries, present them as part of and inline with an actual informational article about the product. Present the images within the relevant text in the same successful format used by magazine articles, with the added bonus that on a webpage a compact thumbnail can access a larger version if the reader is interested.

I'm truly tired of the galleries as they're done now. Time and time again clicking them and expecting information proves to be a mistake and a waste of my time.

Oh yeah lets tie our hardware to an OS so every time Microsoft changes the OS we not only have to buy the new OS but all new hardware too...Sheesh!

Does your boss know you have nothing to do . . ?

...I know not all galleries contain detailed article or reviews, but the first sentence under the first slide contains a reference and a link to the review:

I recently received the Microsoft Touch Mouse and wrote a review of it for the Windows Desktop Report.