Of Mice and Drivers

I was looking for mouse driver for my old but trusty Microsoft mouse (they do make pretty decent mice), then I came across this “mouse driver selector” on Microsoft’s website:

Microsoft mouse driver options

What a joke!

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out something must be wrong with how the Windows operation systems are written over the years. And apparently nothing is being done to address the issue of how drivers should be written and made compatible across the board like the Mac OS. But I guess this is just another “advantage” when one company gets to control both the underlying OS and the hardware that works with it.