Windows engineers quietly keep a short, secretive compatibility table inside the Bluetooth stack to fix one particularly stubborn relic: the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000 — a 2006-era device that shipped its Bluetooth name using the wrong character encoding and forced Windows...
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For many Windows 11 users, encountering an unexpected “Safely Remove Hardware” prompt to eject their GPU—often the beating heart of their PC—can elicit panic, confusion, and a trawl through community forums in search of answers. While most users know that the “Safely Remove Hardware and Eject...
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As Windows 10 evolves, we are continuing to build in support for musician-focused technologies.
Let’s take a look at MIDI. Windows has had built-in MIDI support going back to the 16-bit days. Since then, most MIDI interfaces have moved to USB and our in-box support has kept pace, with a class...