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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Windows 11, as of version 22H2, supports Bluetooth Core Specification version 5.3, encompassing a comprehensive range of profiles and protocols to facilitate diverse wireless functionalities.
Core Specification Support:
Host Controller Interface (HCI): Facilitates communication between the...
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