Last week I shared some delightful trivia about Windows' Bluetooth drivers , which really don't seem like they should be compatible with the words "delightful trivia." But they are! Microsoft had to make a carveout in its Bluetooth driver code for a specific mouse—its own Wireless Notebook Presenter Mouse 8000, released in 2006—because someone stuck a ® symbol in the name and caused the driver code to break.

After I wrote that story, PC Gamer reader Bill (not Gates) emailed me with his own favorite bit of Windows lore and easily one-upped Microsoft mucking up its Bluetooth code.

"Windows XP and Win 7 'sounds' were edited and processed using a CRACKED version of Sonic Foundry Sound Forge ver. 4.5. You cannot make this up," he wrote.

Well, maybe you could , but Bill didn't. This story act

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