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So Microsoft and other companies sell these “wireless desktops” which generally include a keyboard and a mouse that both connect wirelessly to a transmitter that connects to the computer’s USB port. Useful stuff, that. Wires are tangly.

But then they connect the transmitter to the USB plug with an ugly three-foot-long wire! So you’ve eliminated no wires, and in fact have introduced an extra wiry appendage because in some cases the wire is forked at the end to offer both a USB and a legacy PS/2 connector. Then you run the wire up behind the desk and onto the desktop and place it right next to the keyboard. Ingenious.

If Microsoft designed a Bluetooth headset, it would consist of an earpiece, a transceiver that communicates wirelessly with your cell phone but would need to be duct-taped or stapled to the back of the phone, and six feet of 16 gauge speaker wire to connect the two.

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