My favorite one was a few years ago when MS rolled out a Visual Studio with the login window broken. Literally, it was impossible to log in. I still cannot believe a company like Microsoft can fall so low.

Aside from the audio issue, it feels like the remote access and pasting issues should have been discovered in QA. This constant slide in quality over the past few years has me looking to Linux as an option.

A recent update broke the file history service for me, which I only discovered when I went to restore a previous version of a file. If you use it too, you should probably check it's actually working.

There's a massive RDP bug in the new update that is breaking stuff with no fix right now. Congrats Microsoft on the help desk ticket generation.

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> "The paste operation might fail silently," according to Microsoft.

> Excel 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2024 are affected. Microsoft said: "Although users try to paste content, the source remains selected and the destination is unmodified. When this issue occurs, users receive no indication of the failure, such as a beep or error message."

How many people wrote lgtm on the security patch?

I keep hearing about how software development is a solved problem in the age of AI... and then reality hits, like we see here.

Will the last competent employee being laid off please turn out the light.

Microsoft has constantly been bragging about AI writing all their code. And they push out more bugs than features these days.

For me, it was about the time of the early announcements for the TPM2.0 reqs for windows 11 that I started to seriously consider alternatives (though I consciously accepted many pain points even then).

The initial debacle that was the Recall recall and announcing the level of AI stuffing of win 11 that made me actively try out Linux mint (which has been quite nice and smooth). LLMs help to diagnose and fix items if you aren’t familiar with Linux. You no longer have to scour message boards for up-front answers (only use them as a “confirmation backstop”).

For work I now use macOS which feels like a toy but is ok overall (probably still some personal habit-based things).

If it weren’t for the fact I still develop plugins for a single, very specific windows-only app in my spare time, I would completely ditch windows, with contempt. Outside of Windows I am continually stubbing my toe on every single use of every single MSFT product with which I interact; primarily outlook, teams, and some azure stuff. Their products feel highly “feature optimized” with absolutely zero (perhaps negative) cross-feature cohesion. e.g. it’s as if the various outlook panes and the boxes of content were designed so modularly and independently that they don’t re-size or scale themselves cooperatively.

I perpetually experience stark jamais vu using their products, i.e. I am forced to use them every day and each time feels as unfamiliar, clunky, and unintuitive as the first time I ever touched them.

Let's pour more AI

There is not a single component in Windows that is not riddled with bugs, its infuriating.

I wonder what exactly the "quality czar" is doing, maybe he needs a good PIP?

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/02/05/satya-nadell...

Do they even have automated testing? This should have been detected not only in one layer of the release process, but in serveral ones.

That's why I had to enable the "pause updates for four weeks" setting on Windows. Otherwise every second update would break something somewhere and disrupt workflows regularly. With the one-month update delay you'd get the updates that fixed the previous update.

Windows 11 has been broken since launch. If you have more than 20 files of mixed types (especially media files) in a folder, the new file explorer takes 10 seconds to load the folder. In Windows 10, the same operation took less than a second.

Windows 11 is so comically slow that I sometimes feel the warm nostalgia of using the Intel Pentium desktop shared by the entire family when I was a kid -- click, wait 3 seconds, click, wait 3 seconds, click...

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After the last update many things suddenly feel very sluggish like searching an app and starting it.

They must have forgotten to prompt "bug-free and make no mistakes". It happens to the best of us.

item no. 17531 why i will be using windows 10 LTSC to the grave. zero issues

Linux is rising from the ground up. Many users are fed up with Redmond's nefarious schemes to pump up their share price like using its user base as A.I. guinea pigs.

Amazingly it's U.S. users who are taking the lead in installing Linux Mint and other Linux distros. I assume it's because there are few consumer privacy and protection laws and tech companies can abuse their users as they see fit. Many have had enough and are jumping ship towards Linux.

Why such a verbose title ? "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel" would have been enough.

Vibe coding?

Sounds like Microsoft, yes.

The time has come for Microsoft to support LibreOffice.

The people have enough of Microsoft's shenanigans.

Every time I see one of these articles I will, very briefly, get optimistic that people will move to an operating system that isn't terrible, and then realize that most people will literally just forget about the bullshit they put up with Windows.

I don't know what kind of reality distortion field Microsoft generates, but for reasons that are still unclear to me, people will literally simply forget every single awful thing Windows does.

People will (correctly) call out the jankiness of desktop Linux, but tacitly imply that Windows doesn't have jankiness. They will forget all the times that Windows Update bricked their computer, or all the time that their "repair" tools were literally just no-ops, or their copy-paste feature not working, or Microsoft literally breaking fucking Notepad, or the "System Restore" tool not actually restoring anything.

Desktop Linux certainly has its issues, I'm not so deluded as to say that it's perfect, but I really feel like its bullshit-level is lower. Oh, and since it supports filesystems that didn't coexist with dinosaurs, the snapshotting actually works.

Instead, I'll be stuck playing tech support for Microsoft's shitty products for my parents until the heat death of the universe.

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MS is forcing everyone to vibe code right? Like they utterly fucked Minecraft with many baffling bugs fairly recently afaik.

Well that explains why excel was completely and utterly borked cutting and pasting then.

What an absolute fucking shit show.

so just a regular day for Microsoft

Another minor bug with this release - explorer doesn't launch on Citrix platforms, or those with FSLogix (a Microsoft product) installed. Good job Microsoft.

Is it because they're using LLMs? LOL. This is just the beginning.

When does the people learn enough is enough and ditch Windows?

Windows users, welcome to the world of Linux! Now you don't need to have to install Linux to experience the Linux way of working.

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When they tell you that Linux has issues with suspend, reply that Windows has issues with paste /s

Ty here from Sillyz.Computer pointing out once again, software authorship is and has always been political and not technical.

AI inverted power structures to favor action over bureaucracy and software development is historically the definition of bureaucratic— dating back to IBM backing the Holocaust.

The entire thing is just men LARPing as executives behind closed doors and kids vibing futures is forcing them to keep up while the mask of “the responsible computer adult” continues slipping.

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I really wanted to spend more time reading the comments, but I've sworn off doom-scrolling.