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Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery (www.theregister.com)
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[–] doctortofu@piefed.social 175 points 3 weeks ago (23 children)

Jesus fucking Christ, is Windows just 100% vibe coded now? How do those fuckups keep happening? It's honestly unbelievable...

I'm so glad I decided to move away from it - I still have no idea what I'm doing in Linux, but then again I never had a lot of idea about what I'm doing in Windows either, so it's all good :)

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 54 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

As the article mentions, it's because Microsoft cut down their quality control to the point where they're just sending stuff out then reacting when people report what breaks. Sure they have their "insider" builds but that program isn't working very well to catch these issues that find their way into release builds.

Back in the day they had a massive testing lab and a big team of testers. Then they fired them all just over a decade ago. We can thank Satya Nadella I guess. He's more of a line-go-up man than a good quality products person.

[–] doctortofu@piefed.social 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

It's completely insane to me that businesses deal with it without suing their butts off. I can understand individual customers, they tend to be docile, but how did all this not cause massive losses to a litigious company yet?

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 23 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Enterprise lags behind Home and Pro. Consumers are QA for Enterprise.

[–] vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

One lesson they took from RedHat, is it not?

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