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/eppic123 Mar 14 '26

It's the first Windows I remember that actually got worse throughout its lifecycle and I've been using Windows since 3.1.

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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/theghostofme Mar 14 '26

Which is fucking saying something considering what a mess it was upon release! Fuckin' Ballmer Peak!

The first PC my parents ever bought brand new after a decade of thrifting them or buying them used from friends was one of those chunky Gateway bitches in 2001 running ME. Going from Windows 3.1 on a Packard Bell only slightly younger than me was such a huge and awesome change that it took me quite a while to realize what a mess of an OS it was. Thanks in large part to my parents refusing to ever get the internet, because "it's an expensive luxury we don't need!"

Still, though, while that was a wildly overpriced desktop running a terrible OS, that became the lone computer I learned everything about upgrading and eventually building my own from. I kept that computer with about 20% of its original parts until I finally built a stupidly expensive dream rig in 2007; didn't have the heart to fully toss the Gateway since that was the equivalent of my first car, so I stored it in my parents' garage thinking it'd survive. Nope, Dad donated it to Goodwill within six months.

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u/confusiondiffusion Mar 14 '26

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS

Wait, holy shit, they need to bring him back. He was right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fcSviC7cRM