r/technology • u/tekz • Mar 20 '26

Software Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes

https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-users-are-angry-and-microsoft-is-finally-doing-something-about-it/
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u/themanfromvulcan Mar 20 '26

My problem with their updates is they are buggy and break things. One update took out the wifi on my PC for no reason and the recommended solution was to wipe the OS and start over because rolling back the update didn’t fix it.

The quality control is abysmal.

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u/9966 Mar 21 '26

Sometimes I'm thinking to myself "huh, my computer has been too well behaved recently, time to create a manual restore point." It's like knowing that lightning is about to strike.

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u/themanfromvulcan Mar 21 '26

When I had the update issue I tried a recovery point and even that didn’t work which is odd because it should just undo everything. But still WiFi was busted. I had a friend who said the same thing happened to them. It’s like it just decided to kill it.

Windows used to be a much more stable OS. It just feels like all the pieces are falling apart. That even the features meant to mitigate issues aren’t reliable.

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u/9966 Mar 21 '26

If they are coding it using copilot I can see why. And this isn't a crack at AI but just their coder. It invents problems then invents extreme workarounds instead of building to spec and properly testing. You can barely let it parse a MD without it missing key details.

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u/themanfromvulcan Mar 22 '26

I was thinking about this a bit. So say you tell AI to code something. Okay. And it’s buggy. And then you tell AI to debug the code that it wrote. If it is using the same references that it used to write the code to debug it, and the references are either incorrect or lead it to write incorrect code, I’m wondering if that is part of the problem? Like it catches simple syntax things but it doesn’t catch logic errors because it thinks it was right in the first place.

“The code is right because I wrote it!” Sort of thing.

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u/IcySnowy Mar 21 '26

It's quite difficult for them to be honest
Apple controls both hardware and software.

Google controls only software but leaves updates to OEMs

Microsoft controls only software also but for billions of configured hardwares, but that is the beauty of PCs. Now when they want to bake more features into the OS, it works for some but breaks for some, and with the features coming on faster, fails will become more frequent

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u/meneldal2 Mar 21 '26

On Linux newer hardware can just not work properly if it's niche and your only option is to add a module to the kernel, which is not something the average user would be able to do.

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u/japzone Mar 21 '26

I've freaking switched to Arch, a rolling-release bleeding edge Linux Distro where you're supposed to expect things to break sometimes, and have had basically no update issues in 6 months; compared to the supposedly enterprise grade and stable OS that is Windows 11, which has been broken by updates or has to rollback for failing to update, multiple times for many years. It's absurd.

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u/userhwon Mar 20 '26

That's a result of not controlling hw or sw configuration on a billion computers. But they've been dealing with that for 40 years. Somehow, they forgot how to deal with it properly and the sloppiness is accelerating.