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.
Leave it to Microsoft to give a mouse a five-word brand name.
Probably had a whiteboard and every executive in the room had to go up and add a word lol
I can’t wait for the new copilot mouse to come out!
Had no clue logi ai prompt builder was a thing, wild world we live in.
I’m hoping for a 5 button trackball named “Microsoft 365”
There was 7999 before it as well
Lots of drivers are doing things like this I bet. It’s much easier to fix software than hardware.
I remember when one of the Guitar Hero games was first released for Xbox, they soon had a big problem where lots of guitar peripherals were behaving strangely. I think in the end the whammy bar wasn’t always going to what the sensor read as 100 or 0 or something like that because of weak springs or poor physical fit with the plastic, and in the end the fix was basically to adjust how the values were read in software.
