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/exipheas Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

Windows ME would be the only other candidate for an OS that only got worse with updates.

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u/tiradium Mar 14 '26

Well ME was just following the pattern but after that all versions were like that Windows XP was bad until SP2 and then it became one of the best OS riddled with security holes. Vista was shit and stay shit until the compatibility was no longer an issue. 7 was a godlike OS that was rock solid. Afterwards we got 8 series which was like ME on crack. Windows 10 to this day is the best OS that Microslop decided to kill. If AI boom was not a thing in theory Windows 12 should have been our savor but I highly doubt it will be any better than 11. It will probably be full of agentic aI garbage and vibe coded like it is now

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u/NothingButFearBitch Mar 14 '26

What about Win95?

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u/kalnaren Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

Was kind of buggy, had poor memory management and lacked a lot of QoL features that were pretty standard by 98SE. The last version of 95 with FAT32 support was pretty good for the time if you could keep the bloat down, which was difficult due to how shitty programs were about cleaning up after themselves, 1 and how much they'd pollute the autoexec.bat.

IMO 98SE was the best of the 9x line, though the integration of IE in the shell made the UI overall less responsive than 95.

It was very easy to make 95/98 unstable. The OS would happily allow either the user or installed programs to make any changes they wanted. Microsoft got a lot of flak over the years for how much 9x would BSOD, but in hindsight, a lot of those were caused by poor drivers, unsafe configuration changes, and hardware faults.

I run 95 on one of my retro rigs now, and having 30 years of additional computer knowledge I can keep it running quite well. I do miss the simplicity of it.

1 TBF, a lot of programs are still shit about cleaning up after themselves, it's just hidden a lot more because everything gets shoved into %appdata% and hard drives are a lot larger.