Two-Handed Navigation with Microsoft Office Keyboard

In my opinion, one of the few Microsoft Products that was really ready for prime time when it was released was the Microsoft Natural keyboard. I know that some people hate the things, but before picking one up, typing all day made me fell like my hands were going to fall off my wrists. Understanding that ergonomics is a strictly personal science, the other thing that's starting to give me a really irritating pain is the scroll wheel on my mouse. Before the wheel and all those web pages that warrant using it, the mouse never really bothered me much. Sure, there are options like clicking on the scroll bar or using the arrow keys on the keyboard to scroll, but they still put the onus of the action on one hand. I'm hoping that the Microsoft hardware guys have built another input device that will help me save my wrists and hands for important things like pinball with the New Microsoft Office Keyboard. The key feature I'm looking forward to in this gadget is the left-side Single Touch Pad that lets you use both hands concurrently for navigation. Also on the left-hand side is the dreaded scroll wheel, Cut, Copy and Paste Hot Keys, and an application toggle switch. Hot keys and the like don't interest me that much since I use a lot of key commands, but maybe being able to divide navigation duties between both hands will give my mouse hand a break. Then again, maybe I'll just try to work twice as fast. Functions that include New, Open and Close; Reply, Forward and Send; Spell, Save, and Print are up in the keyboards F key row, which, as I said won't do much for folks who already use and key commands. The new Office Keyboard also offers more than 50 programmable button options that you can customize through IntelliType Pro keyboard software, uses a standard PS/2 or USB connection, and will be available in September 2001 for an estimated retail price of $64.95 (U.S.). The biggest and most typically MS weird issue for the new Office Keyboard is that it requires 35 MB of hard disk space. For a keyboard? Also, it seems like they ought to have a version of the keyboard for folks who keep their mouse on the left-hand side of their work area. I know quite a few lefties who work that way.