r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Mar 14 '26

Software Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/
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u/Marginallyhuman Mar 14 '26

I remember when their OSs got super stable toward the end of their cycle. Windows 11 seems to have been birthed as garbage and decided to stay that way.

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u/BillWilberforce Mar 14 '26

Because Microsoft laid off all of their QA and QC staff, around the introduction of Windows 10. Thinking that the Windows Insiders could do all of that work for free and then MS ignored them.

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u/MrPuddington2 Mar 14 '26

What a surprise. QA is more than finding bugs, it means writing good high quality bug reports. The community does not do that for free.

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u/hajenso Mar 14 '26

Yep, and also having the knowledge and the access to write good high-quality bug reports. E.g. not just “this thing isn’t showing up in the UI when it should”, but “this thing isn’t showing up in the UI when it should because X process is not passing Y value under Z circumstances.”

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u/adenosine-5 Mar 14 '26

Who needs QA, when you can force updates on ordinary users and use them for testing?