I'm OK with either vertical or horizontal scrolling -- but not both at the same time. Everyone in my company has a minimum of a 1920x1080 screen, and most have more than one or something even larger. We should not have to scroll in more than one direction, and a layout that makes that happen is ugly.
(I also agree that mapping forward/backward to the horizontal scroll is worse than ugly: it breaks user expectations by being inconsistent.)
(I also agree that mapping forward/backward to the horizontal scroll is worse than ugly: it breaks user expectations by being inconsistent.)