I use it every so often when I notice something peculiar. None of my feedbacks actually became so popular. Even then I know one of them has been fixed. The fix probably didn't come because I have pointed it out, but I was happy about it regardless.
I couldn't find a web-link to the Hub, so I think it is not entirely public, but surely available to the Windows 10 users.
[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4021566/windows-10-...
After adding one, I found out that when the display goes to sleep, Windows sees it as a disconnection, and 'helpfully' wakes up to reorganize all the windows onto one display. That wakes up the Display port monitor, which triggers another reorganization, and the cycle begins again.
Googling didn't get me too far obviously.
I ran into this after building a system and it was very frustrating. IIRC my problems were related to my network card and having virtualbox installed. Also turning off wake for my mouse helped (bumping the desk would turn on the computer).
Wasn't any device, like network adapter and power diagnostics returned nothing.
Solution: reset motherboard NVRAM. No more mystery wakeups!
Thanks svchost.exe!
I disabled updates, but it still does... something while I am sleeping.
1. The start menu latency is now so bad you have to forcibly wait 2-3 seconds before typing your search after hitting the start button. This is on a stacked E5 Xeon workstation class machine.
2. Search is crap. I can type "visual" and visual studio doesn't come up!?!?
Some of the problems I understand; “regedit” has to match exactly because it’s basically doing the “run” dialog box. But no idea why other stuff can’t be searched for.
An opposite case: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list
But as a non professional developer-windows user, I don't feel like it is my job to spend some time filling a detailed bug report with crash dump and reproducable steps. That's kind of the Micrisoft support/QA team offloading their job on their users.
If you are a paying enterprise customer of Microsoft you can get very good support. I briefly worked for a company that ran their compute infrastructure on Windows (~2000 physical servers), in the month I worked there they had multiple tickets open with Microsoft. If I remember correctly, one was for excess memory usage and Microsoft dug through a memory dump to find the problem.
I hear Google has improved for paying enterprise customers, under Diane Greene's leadership, but they certainly burned some bridges in the past with poor support.
Public bug trackers are super helpful for professionals, but the lack of one isn't necessarily an indication of poor customer service.
[1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/assistedsupportproducts
At least, after I managed to get past the faux-IVR, the support staff was competent enough.
In once case we got Scott Hanselman's attention via HN on an issue but the outcome was clearly that a major part of SCVMM's support for Linux was a hack job and mostly abandoned and their own assigned team member didn't understand the problem domain properly.
Chuck it on github for open source lip service then ignore it. Add telemetry on by default. Make it a paid service. Anything to hurt the customer's trust.
And I'm going to keep complaining loudly about this until it changes.
The googleproductforum.com (whatever it's called) which is usually the #1 result in Google is absolutely worthless.
I am not joking. It is infuriatingly worthless.
This seems to affect a number of models from a number of OEMs that use the same "template".