Editing Computer mouse (section)

== In the marketplace ==
[[File:Assorted computer mice - MfK Bern.jpg|thumb|Computer mice built between 1986 and 2007]]

Around 1981, Xerox included mice with its [[Xerox Star]], based on the mouse used in the 1970s on the Alto computer at [[PARC (company)|Xerox PARC]]. [[Sun Microsystems]], [[Symbolics]], [[Lisp Machines]] Inc., and [[Tektronix]] also shipped workstations with mice, starting in about 1981. Later, inspired by the Star, [[Apple Inc.|Apple Computer]] released the [[Apple Lisa]], which also used a mouse. However, none of these products achieved large-scale success. Only with the release of the [[Macintosh 128K|Apple Macintosh]] in 1984 did the mouse see widespread use.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=HWM |title=The Macintosh Phenomenon: Celebrating Twenty Years of the World's Most Adored Desktop Computers |author-first=Andrew |author-last=Chan |pages=74–77 |date=November 2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o-oDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA76}}</ref>

The Macintosh design,<ref>{{cite magazine |author-last=Gladwell |author-first=Malcolm |title=Creation Myth – Xerox PARC, Apple, and the truth about innovation |magazine=The New Yorker |date=2011-05-16 |url=http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/16/110516fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all |access-date=2011-08-31 |quote=The mouse was conceived by the computer scientist Douglas Engelbart, developed by Xerox PARC, and made marketable by Apple}}</ref> commercially successful and technically influential, led many other vendors to begin producing mice or including them with their other computer products (by 1986, [[Atari ST]], [[Amiga]], [[Windows 1.0]], [[GEOS (8-bit operating system)|GEOS]] for the [[Commodore 64]], and the [[Apple IIGS]]).<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Popular Mechanics |title=Colorful New Apple |author-first=Stephen A. |author-last=Booth |volume=164 |issue=1 |page=16 |issn=0032-4558 |date=January 1987 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GOMDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16}}</ref>

The widespread adoption of graphical user interfaces in the software of the 1980s and 1990s made mice all but indispensable for controlling computers. In November 2008, [[Logitech]] built their billionth mouse.<ref>{{cite news |author-last=Shiels |author-first=Maggie |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/technology/7751627.stm |title=Logitech's billionth mouse |work=[[BBC News]] |date=2008-12-03 |access-date=2010-05-29}}</ref>