Granted that was a while back but painful memories die hard.
That was WIndows XP 20 years ago. Please bring arguments about modern Window 11 security which is the current up to date product they're selling and supporting not scenarios that haven't happened in 20 years.
[0] https://www.tomsguide.com/news/windows-11-update-causing-blu...
This is basically "take a screenshot every 30 seconds and compile it into a timelapse", but on steroids, and the same appeal, and arguments wrt. who gets to run it on whose machines, all apply.
However, without metrics that show BSoDs from patches (which MS will likely never share), it’s hard to see if things have improved or regressed. If they regressed, someone up in their leadership chain is hopefully following the constructive discussion here.
So yes it would start in the past, but it then has to continue for a long time.
Pointing out that a company was bad 20 years ago isn't enough. You need to show they were also bad 15 years ago, and 10 years ago, and 5 and/or 25 years ago.
So complaining that the only evidence was so far in the past is valid. The original goalposts were not reached. (Well, someone in another part of the thread eventually listed every google result for a windows update making anything crash, but that doesn't really establish that microsoft is "botching" updates at a level significantly above background noise, which I think was the original intent.)
Also, if we're actually getting into this, the XP gripe had nothing to do with updates. That's moving the goalposts half a mile in the other direction.
??? You specifically asked for it! What are you doing.
That didn't run their own enhanced visibility on their own cloud platform.
https://www.csoonline.com/article/564499/3-leaked-nsa-exploi...
You have no idea the cruft and technical debt Windows has in order to maintain its backwards compatibility.
My point is, good and bad memories will always stand out.
Both OS families have changed much since that time.
That'd be cool if one day I can get the laptop running on battery and not just on sector.
Let me just setup it.
Wait a second, how do I wake up the screen again and get out of this hibernation stage ?
Why are all the fans stuck in 100% now ?
Errr, first let's see if I can get the trackpad working.
When I see someone complain about unsupported/unsupportable chips in comments on online forums, especially one dubbed "Hacker News", I am puzzled how I in my middle school years acted out a pattern that is objectively smarter* than what I read in such comments. I also happen to first-hand know I am for sure not the only one with this vantage point. Those who comment about unsupported/unsupportable chips as if it is somehow an open source kernel's fault might want to take a moment to consider how others, and how many others, are viewing such drivel. For every one of us who take the time to point this out, there are 10,000 of us experiencing utter contempt, like as if we just got an unexpected whiff of some hot garbage.
[*]And, I honestly don't think I'm even that smart.