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Microsoft Confirms New Blue Screen Warning for Windows 10 and 11 Users

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The downside of forced automatic updates has certainly been getting some news lately.

You see, if you don't let us force updates on you, your computer will be insecure, and you could potentially get a blue screen, or your business could be down for days.

The difference is, Microsoft has a robust and sensible testing and rollout model.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd1nNFTkWFg

_had_.

Or rather, if you talk about professional settings, the best rollout model : first rollout changes on the home version, fix the bugs and quirks, then rollout the changes to pro version, fix the last bugs, then rollout the fixed changes to enterprise clients.

Citation needed.

There are too many subtle bugs in Windows which seem to never seen the light of testing: mouse double clicks for single clicks, sending the close message to 2 overlapping windows, USB agressive power management, and so on and so forth.

Very soon people will realize they have no idea what their bitlocker key is and will be locked out.

Not "new" exactly...used to see this all the time at work when IT would push out some firmware update to corporate laptops that caused Windows to think the hardware had changed and prompt for the Bitlocker recovery key.

Also, to be fair, about 12-18 months ago an update of some sort caused a lot of our Mac laptops to need their FileVault keys manually put in on boot for some reason. It's not like this is a Microsoft-only problem.

Oh yes this happend to my dear mother who is using a Surface Pro 3 from 2014. I was able to login to her Microsoft account and send her the bitlocker key. I thought it might have been a pram type thing glitching, like how we used to need to reset the PRAM on the big old imac's for some reason to get it to behave...

Can we finally get "The Year of the Linux Desktop" already?

I mean, I switched my personal desktop a couple years ago, a few family members have been switched off for over a decade (grandmother before she passed, etc).

The pain and issues on Windows just seem to be increasing.

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