I’ve been on macOS since the Windows XP era and never in my life has the OS broken after a software update.

Come to think of it, same goes with iOS. I’ve been on iOS since the iPhone 4.

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

War this a widespread issue? I know every computer can have one of issues, but Microsoft seems to have regular widespread issues and I was wandering about example where Apple also had widespread issues.

"Thanks to Microsoft's legendary approach to quality control, installing Windows patches these days is getting to be less like Russian Roulette and more like accidentally stepping on a rake left in the grass."

Oooof!

One lesson they took from RedHat, is it not?

They know that they know nothing. They do what they must and let be what comes. An enlightened monopolist corporation.

If that "AI" is getting feedback from fixes they make, then it makes sense. They are basically training it all the time. Except training it on their own devs seems to be pissing against the wind.

How do those fuckups keep happening?

I guess, they're still trying to reproduce the Ballmer Peak

The is a genuine question that I don’t have the answer to.

I would say that because nobody can muster the consensus on any real policy. There's plenty of legacy, with many different people and teams responsible, knowledge lost and so on.

And then this requires some sort of unified vision. Despite, eh, all the downsides, Apple can do that. MS can't.

They'd honestly have to make a separate "neowin" subsystem with new GUI and everything, and make win32 and win64 and all the old tooling optional and parallel. Because their approach to backward compatibility means keeping everything around. They can't fix the mess maintaining that.

Peobably also comes down to not many softwares deciding to fuck with systwm files.
Recently had a borked Win7 -> Win10 install that was unable to keep the Win11 upgrade stable.
After an update and reboot it stopped working.

Probable reason why: Some McAfee drive encryption driver embedded in the system files.
The drive wasnt encrypted. All files were externally readable by our backup software.
But removing the files from system32 borked the system and resulted in BSODs.

Is it this invasive on the mac side?

Thanks I wondered if the backwards compatibility stuff was part of it.

Thanks for what? I'm not knowledgeable, it's just poking with my finger into the sky

I got a survey question from windows feedbackhub on my work computer yesterday, asking if i would recommend windows. And i thought fine ill answer this seriously with real reasons why.

I wrote a long explanation from my own experiences helping people and using it, half way through i shit you not, the feedbackhub froze and crashed.

I should really keep up with Windows news even if I don't use it.

Thank you for the info and thank you for posting.

Your response

It probably detected a certain number of flagged words or phrases and knew it was gonna be really negative feedback and “crashed”

thier new thing is focousing on thier money-hemmorhaging AI.

Thanks to Microsoft's legendary approach to quality control, installing Windows patches these days is getting to be less like Russian Roulette and more like accidentally stepping on a rake left in the grass.

I like the second metaphor:

The whole neighborhood is going to hear you swearing and shouting 🤬

It wasn't even that negative.

Would you recommend windows to family and friends?

No, 90% of those i help (ages 10-70) with computers and tech dont need a computer, they can use their phone for everything. A phone can pay bills, contact friends and family even print documents or pictures just fine and they have everything they need and want.

The only reason someone even wants a PC today is to play games or they need it for work and in those cases i usually don't need to recommend them an os because they probably don't have any other options, because they are comfortable windows or mac.

I think, on a abstract level, the dynamic between a companies relationship to code is comparable to genetics in biology. In that sense, Vibe Coding is the last generation in a chain of inbreeding and Microsoft are the Hapsburgs. There will be a day where they succumb to their lack of quality control.