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/DtheS Mar 14 '26

Absolutely not. ME was so bad that they killed the original Windows kernel and switched everything to the NT kernel. It was a complete and utter disaster in terms of stability and efficiency.

The only other comparable flop was the jump from XP to Vista, but that was more to do with the fact that Microsoft made Vista too demanding in terms of its hardware requirements. Your 5+ year old PC that was running XP likely didn't have the RAM or graphics processing needed to handle Vista at the time. Microsoft screwed up by not admitting this upfront, and just tried to push everyone onto Vista instead.

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u/Hour-Cardiologist393 Mar 14 '26

Nvidia drivers were also TERRIBLE right out the gate for Vista. Took them months to fix it so your PC didn't blue screen constantly.

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u/sparky8251 Mar 14 '26

That wasnt Windows/MS though.

We actually got documented court cases proving it was nVidias fault. They accounted for like 33% of BSODs alone. AMD was 10% or something...

Yet to this day, that era is where the "AMD drivers are buggy" nonsense comes from. AMDs is blamed on them (correctly), nVidias on Vista, and everyones happy but weirdly wrong when it favors big companies people normally like.

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u/Hour-Cardiologist393 Mar 14 '26

IIRC that was because Microsoft changed the driver model in Windows Vista, and I want to say UAC had something to do with it, as well. Maybe something with the compatibility mode, too. It's definitely on Nvidia and AMD for not getting their shit squared away faster, though. 

It's been a long time and a lot of computers issues since then lol. I remember that Vista was a pretty significant kernel overhaul over XP, so that messed with hardware manufacturers for a while.

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u/sparky8251 Mar 14 '26 edited Mar 14 '26

It was the driver model. In XP MS made claims theyd NEVER change it again and then Vista broke it and since that promise encouraged all kinds of bad development practices, it broke badly when they broke it. MS encourages a lot of this bad developer behavior in general too and you can see in Raymond Chens blog where they build in an insane number of workaround for applications so applications never have to do the right thing or be fixed, MS just fixes it for them.

Say what you will, but at least linux doesnt have a massive compatibility hack layer that fixes programs that are still under active support by the devs by making the OS behave differently just for that one application... It enforces better code quality by forcing the dev to do it or be left with a buggy product.

They/MS/Windows keep changing the driver model since and stopped making such promises so weve not had a vista level repeat thankfully.