got it working in windows 10!!
using it on a wooden surface and it's honestly p good; attributing that to it being one of the last ball mice designs MS produced, the 'wheel mouse 3.0', released concurrently with the far more expensive optical 'intellimouse'
reacclimating to only 3 buton,
welp i can't find my 2020 steelseries mouse -or- my backup 2012 razor mouse -or- my backup 2004 logitech wireless and so we are down to the 1996 Microsoft Special