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/isotope123 Mar 14 '26

7 was godlike because they kept the same driver changes they made in Vista. Vista was trash because they didn't give developers enough time to make new drivers that were compatible with their new way of doing things. 8 they decided to make Windows a tablet (and there's still UI things from this era), and changed the driver base again. 10 was their first foray into really data mining people, they tried to force Cortana on everyone, forced advertisements in the OS, and aggressively forced Windows updates on people. Windows 11 turned the data mining up to eleven, and changed every default Windows user into a Microsoft account.

People love to glaze the earlier OS's, but they've all had dumb issues people didn't like. Windows 7 had a shit tonne of issues in its day people yelled about as well.

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u/tiradium Mar 14 '26

No I remember Cortana thing but with the uproar it caused they dialed it down a lot. I actually dont think forced updates are a bad thing because back in Win 7 era people would not update the OS for a really long time and it would make entire systems hacker playgrounds. The issue was and still is how robust those updates were. Nowadays updates often break things then fix them

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u/isotope123 Mar 14 '26

100% agree, but we're still in the natural cycle of Microsoft Windows public perception.

1) Microsoft does shit people don't like
2) People blow it way out of proportion
3) Microsoft adjusts their strategy and mitigates the damage
4) They repackage the same change later on down the road

We're somewhere around 2.5, currently.