Your mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse? Before Bluetooth and USB, computers had PS/2 ports. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen took another trip down memory lane this week to explain ...

I've got a USB mouse (MS) that came with a USB to PS/2 converter. It works fine hooked up to a PS/2 port. I run it through a KVM switch that is PS/2 and not USB so this is necessary. One of the boxen ...

I couldn't tell you if it was the adaptor or the laptop that made the difference, but I used to use one and it worked great. The adaptor may have said it was specifically for keyboard+mouse...it's ...