The Old New Thing

How did the X-Mouse setting come to be?

September 5, 2012 Sep 5, 2012 09/5/12

Raymond Chen

Commenter HiTechHiTouch wants to know whether the "X-Mouse" feature went through the "every request starts at −100 points filter", and if so, how did it manage to gain 99 points? The X-Mouse feature is ancient and long predates the "−100 points" rule. It was added back in the days when a developer could add a random rogue ...