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Sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that! PCs refuse to shut down after Microsoft patch
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this post was submitted on 17 Jan 2026
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Yes... and no.
Microsoft's operating systems have been very hit or miss - certainly their consumer operating systems - with the classic rule being "every other one is decent":
The more business focussed OS's like Windows for Workgroups, NT4, and 2000 were rock solid in fairness.
Their business practices have always been shady as fuck too. Embrace, extend, extinguish is firmly burned into computer hobbyists minds.
It's funny because my first PC was a Compaq from Best Buy that came with 98 and my pattern with windows has always been every other one so I've used all the ones with check marks and none of the "bad ones". I wonder how much more I would hate windows if I had started a year earlier with 95...