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Prior to this, Microsoft released a [[QFE]] of its Bluetooth stack for [[Windows XP#Service Pack 1|Windows XP Service Pack 1]] labelled as QFE323183. Microsoft only released this directly to third-party companies and did not directly release it to the public. The third-party companies were then allowed to release the QFE as part of their own Bluetooth device's software installation. Microsoft no longer supports this QFE.
[[Windows Vista]] also includes a built-in Bluetooth stack which is an expansion over the [[Windows XP]] Bluetooth stack. In addition to supporting more [[Bluetooth profile]]s than Windows XP Service Pack 2, it also supports third-party driver development which enables third-parties to add support for additional Bluetooth Profiles. This was lacking in the Windows XP Service Pack 2 built-in Bluetooth stack, which only allowed application development on top of the Microsoft Bluetooth stack, which some observers felt slowed the adoption of the Microsoft Windows Bluetooth stack. In addition, the stack only supports a single SPP connection at any time, which is not always acceptable, consequently driving software vendors to use other stacks. By general consensus, the API is the most clumsy of all those available: in particular a SPP connection does not return the serial port connected, leaving the programmer to query the registry to find which port was connected; this usually involves messy delay loops as the registry is updated before the port is actually available.
Microsoft has not released an official Bluetooth stack for older Windows versions, such as [[Windows 2000]] or [[Windows Me]].
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