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Superuser: 'Why does Windows think that my wireless keyboard is a toaster?'
- meowster 6y agoIt's the Internet Of Things. Microsoft was just trying to be ahead of the curve (post was from 2014). Afterall, there are now IoT dishwashers, refrigerators, coffeemakers, etc. Whose to say there won't be an IoT toaster?
- benttoothpaste 6y agoTechnically it’s supposed to be a USB toaster. Not sure how practical such a device could be.
- Arrath 6y agoFinally more granularity to the toasty-ness of the finished product than the vague 1-10 dial!
- perl4ever 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster (from 1990)
- naikrovek 6y agoI both love and hate this, because virtually everyone is going to blame Microsoft when things like this happen, when it is likely a driver sample or some example code from somewhere that a vendor copied and adjusted to make a working driver. Microsoft ALWAYS catches flak for things like this. People immediately blame Microsoft. I really don't know or understand how a complete culture has emerged that blames Microsoft for every little thing. After reading the answer, yep it was a sample driver. Now to be clear, yes some things are the fault of Microsoft and, yes, some of those things are severe and unjustifiable and so on. My questions are about why people a) by default assume Microsoft is at fault, and b) by default don't verify their assumptions are correct.