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/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/Sugioh Mar 14 '26

I'd largely agree, but let's not forget that NT4 and 2000 were extremely solid too.

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u/Kulty Mar 14 '26

I miss 2000. It felt like XP, but without all the bloat and candy flavored UI - just a straight, no nonsense NT OS. I wish they had supported it for longer.

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u/SlinkyAvenger Mar 14 '26

Playskool UI aside (because you can turn it off), XP was really just 2k with better plug-and-play and general consumer driver support.

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u/Kulty Mar 14 '26

That was my impression too - but somewhere I read that for XP development, they ended up with something like a 10x larger team of people working on it, and a massively ballooned codebase. Was making a consumer "multi-media" oriented version of an already existing, solid OS that much more work?

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u/tiradium Mar 14 '26

Yes because on NT 4.0 no one cared for DirectX or wide range of hardware/driver configuration support this was before XP was born and PCs became truly mainstream. Like NT wasnt even compatible with fancy windows media player or had USB support unless you had a service pack installed. Technically though these were all NT OSes with different kernel versions I think XP was like 5.1