TIL Microsoft had to patch the Bluetooth stack on Windows because they didn't test their own Bluetooth mouse on it
TIL Microsoft had to patch the Bluetooth stack on Windows because they didn't test their own Bluetooth mouse on it
devblogs.microsoft.com
Why is the name of the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 hard-coded into the Bluetooth drivers? - The Old New Thing
They wanted the mouse to have a name like "Microsoft® Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000" but they accidentally used the wrong encoding and the name was invalid. Because they already made thousands of devices without properly testing them, the "obvious" solution was to patch the Bluetooth stack on every single computer in the world to fix this issue. It's the only Bluetooth device released in computer history that requires this.
