Leave it to Microsoft to give a mouse a five-word brand name.
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TIL Microsoft had to patch the Bluetooth stack on Windows because they didn't test their own Bluetooth mouse on it
(devblogs.microsoft.com)
Probably had a whiteboard and every executive in the room had to go up and add a word lol
*First guy goes up, writes Microsoft®*
"Fuck I was going to write that. Hope nobody writes mou.. FUCK"
I can't wait for the new copilot mouse to come out!
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.
I’ve got a lot of time for Microsoft hardware. I remember around 2000 when if you wanted a mouse or keyboard you basically had to buy whatever abomination Logitech was flogging at the time. Then Microsoft came along and started making stuff that was actually a little sexy.
microsoft sidewinder x4 was a great keyboard. Too bad they stopped making them.
I still have my X6, with the modular numpad you could stick to either side.
Although nowadays I only use it for my test bench at home. That thing was truly ahead of its time.
It was Synaptics that introduced competition to Logitech.
My kid just had an issue with his Logitech wireless mouse right clicking with both buttons!
I looked in settings and then I used the mouse on Linux and windows and got the same effect. It turns out Logitech mice use piece of shit button switches.
But no problem I fixed the problem in like 5 minutes once I knew what the problem was. I gave my kid a wired mouse temporarily. Then I went to Amazon and searched for wireless mice. No more Logitech for me thanks.
I've been using the same Logitech 502 mouse for around 7 years now, with a lot of hours of FPS games. It wasn't cheap, could this be a case where the inexpensive thing becomes more expensive in the long run?
They use shit switches but their wireless chipset is the best. The battery life is years instead of weeks and it's always responsive like if it was wired. My HP Bluetooth mouse depletes its battery 20x faster than my Logitech Bluetooth mouse and most importantly when it goes in the sleep mode (around after 15 mins) it needs a click to wake up + it takes a couple seconds to reconnect. Infuriating.
That's the problem. A mouse is currently not a user serviceable item. Remember the days of the rubber ball mice?
They wanted a mouse subscription system? Well they got it and I'm out. Their 1 year mouse stinks.
It took me 20-30 minutes to open up my G502 and install new switches. Of course, you probably want to have some soldering experience to do this, but if it's already unusable... why not try? (assuming you know someone who owns a soldering iron)
I bought an Incott G24 recently, which is a Chinese clone of a Zowie EC2. The software is shit (I set it up once and never used it again) but it has hotswappable switches for M1/M2 which is something I'd love to see in mainstream mice, but they would lose money for it, so it'll never happen.
Like this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EOhVKW_UUAATi4K.jpg:large
Best keyboard I ever had. Well, top 3.
I had a Microsoft mousr in the 90's (9 pin serial, ball), that frankly was better than any other mouse at the time.
I think I read somewhere that they were one of the top Linux contributors back then because of all the device drivers they supplied.
Out of all major operating systems, somehow Windows handles Bluetooth the absolute worst. From my experience:
Android: 99.9% reliability
iOS: 99.9% reliability but a pain to toggle
MacOS: Not really sure but probably near iOS/Android
Ubuntu: 97% reliability
Random Linux distro: 20% reliability
Windows: 5% reliability. Yes, that's really my success rate at connecting Bluetooth headphones to Windows 11.
It's atrocious that Microsoft focuses more on ads in the OS rather than fixing their Bluetooth.
I bet that same workaround is probably implemented in Linux as well.
Linux would probably handle it gracefully.
Wouldn't surprise me if it doesn't check the UTF-8 validity at all and just lets the apps get broken UTF-8 where most of the time nothing horrible happens. That or they just strip invalid characters.