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So I decided that I would succumb to the Bluetooth hype and get a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse/receiver from the company store. 100$ seems a lot, but the Bluetooth USB adapter has some inherent value too.

So, Problem 1. I install hardware the minimalist way. Insert new hardware into PC or plug it in, it asks for drivers, I find them ont he cdrom or the web, and it works. That way I don't have to deal with the hassle of all the extra crap they like to install as a "bonus." Blah, whatever.

needless to say, the driver installs, and I hit connect on the mouse and nothing happens. As it turns out there is a wonderful little control panel called "wireless link" and I had NO FREAKING IDEA that it existed.

THEN, to install the mouse (or pair it as the Bluetooth lingo goes) you have to press connect on the mouse, then hit find on the Bluetooth section of the wireless link tab, then wait, then it finds the mouse, then hit ok, then change away from the default which is that the Bluetooth device and your machine have some sort of security code, then see that the mouse provides mousing as it's one and only service to the world (no shit sherlock) and SELECT mousing, because by default, I want to install/pair a mouse, but not actually use it as a mouse.


Dumbasses.

So it works when its set up right, and the range is pretty good in fact.

But, here I get mad again., I take my Bluetooth usb gadget and mouse and keyboard tot he apple store in the mall, so I can see if their keyboard works with windows. IT should right? it's a STANDARD isn't it? Well, no it doesnt work, infact it sucks totally. I can pair witht he keyboard or the mouse just fine, but the issue is that I don't get the option of enabling mousing or keyboarding as a service from this hardware. BUMMER DUDE, the microsoft keyboard has a hideously bad click-feel and I wanted the apple one so bad.

So that's me beign mad times two.

Final blow.

to keep it short, the microsoft driver fro the microsoft Bluetooth adapter doesn't even support standard Bluetooth audio. which means I can't go use my Bluetooth headset with the microsoft Bluetooth adapter and it's respective microsoft answer to Bluetooth drivers, but rather would need to buy the tdk Bluetooth adapter and use tdk's proprietary non-microsoft native drivers. Not even 3com's Bluetooth will work. why? because each friggin vendor has their own hardware and own Bluetooth usb converter and software which has it's own standard ways of talking to it's own proprietary drivers.

GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK! Bluetooth can definitely go the way of the do-do bird if they can't get this right!