Why Microsoft has the name of an old mouse hidden in its Bluetooth drivers

Theregister | 17-09-2025 10:32pm |

Screw-up or conspiracy? Lurking within the Windows Bluetooth stack is a hardcoded reference to the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000. Is this nostalgic favoritism from Microsoft? Or is it just somebody, somewhere, making a mistake that an engineer had to work around?...

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