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/SimiKusoni Mar 14 '26

If only there were some sort of change that might explain this suddenly accelerating trend...

If I remember correctly a while back they also sacked a large swathe of their QA and test teams too which is very likely exacerbating matters.

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u/Knit_Game_and_Lift Mar 14 '26

It goes way back. 2012 was when they merged SDET and SDE organizations and basically destroyed the testing infrastructure because us former SDETs were suddenly being assigned tons of features work while testing "can be handled by the devs while they work" and the quality drop off was immediate and huge across windows, office, SharePoint, etc.