Announcing the OpenOfficeMouse, the First Multi-Button Application
Mouse for the World's Leading Free Office Software, OpenOffice.org.

Orvieto, Italy, November 6, 2009 – In partnership with the OpenOffice.org community, WarMouse
announced the release of the OpenOfficeMouse, the first multi-button application mouse designed for
the world's leading open-source office productivity suite. With a revolutionary and patented design
featuring 18 buttons, an analog joystick, and support for as many as 52 key commands, the
OpenOfficeMouse is intended to provide a faster and more efficient user interface for OpenOffice.org
applications such as Writer and Calc than the conventional icons, pull-down menus, and hotkeys
presently permit.

The OpenOfficeMouse includes default profiles for the five core OpenOffice.org applications based on
662 million datapoints compiled by the usage tracking facility incorporated into OpenOffice.org 3.1.
These profiles can be easily customized to suit the user's preferences using the included
OpenOfficeMouse setup software. The setup and customization software is an application that will be
released as an open source software project under the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 in
the first quarter of 2010. Default profiles for 20 other games and applications are also included; the
OpenOffice Mouse supports up to 63 profiles to be stored simultaneously in the mouse's memory.
The OpenOfficeMouse is one of the first computer mice to incorporate an analog joystick and the first
to permit the use of the joystick as a keyboard. In the three joystick-as-keyboard modes, the user can
assign up to sixteen different keys or macros to the joystick, which provides for easy movement
regardless of whether the user is flying through the cells of a large spreadsheet in Calc or on the back of
an epic flying mount in World of Warcraft. It is also the first hardware to be permitted to make use of
the OpenOffice.org brand in the nine-year history of the OpenOffice.org Community.

The features of the OpenOfficeMouse include:

* 18 programmable mouse buttons with double-click functionality
* Three different button modes: Key, Keypress, and Macro
* Analog Xbox 360-style joystick with optional 4, 8, and 16-key command modes
* Clickable scroll wheel
* 512k of flash memory
* 63 on-mouse application profiles with hardware, software, and autoswitching capability
* 1024-character macro support.
* Open source support software for creating, managing, and customizing application profiles
* Import and export of custom profiles in XML format
* Optional audio notification of profile switching with customizable wave files
* PDF export of profile button assignments
* Adjustable resolution from 400 to 1,600 CPI
* Default profiles for Writer, Calc, Impress, Base, and Draw based on actual usage statistics
compiled for OpenOffice.org 3.1.
* 20 default profiles for popular games and applications, including Adobe Photoshop, the Gnu Image
Manipulation Program, World of Warcraft, and the Call of Duty series.

John McCreesh, Marketing Project Lead at OpenOffice.org, welcomed the announcement: "The
OpenOffice Mouse is a really cool addition to the desk of any keen OpenOffice.org user. The Mouse
team have worked closely with experts from the OpenOffice.org User Experience project to deliver the
full benefits of the world's leading open-source office software to the fingertips of users. The
prototypes are stunning – I can't wait to get my hands on the finished product."
"You can do far more with this mouse than most people are likely to realize at first," said mouse
designer Theodore Beale. "You can launch applications from the desktop, and in your browser you can
fire up a specific Internet site with one button, then close it with a double-click on the same button. In
Writer and Calc, you can have your most powerful and complicated macros on one row of buttons and
simple functions like Bold, Undo, and Format Cell on another. It's very useful in games like World of
Warcraft, because even without taking the joystick into account, you've got 16 commands within one
click, 40 within two, and all 72 icons on the six action pages within just two double-clicks or less."
For more information about the OpenOfficeMouse, visit http://www.openofficemouse.com. The
OpenOfficeMouse supports Windows, Linux, and Macintosh operating systems and will retail for
$74.99.

Contacts:
Marc Soskin (UTC -05h00)
Media Specialist
m-soskin@excite.com
+1 (952) 270-7829
Theodore Beale (UTC +01h00)
Lead Designer
oomouse@openoffice.org
+1 (612) 284-7344