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Microsoft: "30% of Our Code Is AI." Also Microsoft: "Windows Is Broken."

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It blows my mind that on Linux I can pin the taskbar to the left side and it works out of the box. Windows, aside from somehow losing that basic functionality, won't even install because it requires an internet connection and doesn't even have drivers to use my wifi or Ethernet that the installer can use.

How did this happen? How did Linux, of all things, become easier?

I just don't know what's going on there anymore. Every update is a technical and a PR disaster.

There is no rhyme or reason to Windows UI anymore. I thought I was drinking too much when trying to network my Windows file server with a Mac, and running into the same settings in what looked like three different themed-UIs.

Right-click menu? Would you like more options? Here they are, in what looks like a 2005 version of Windows. What is this?

Don't get me started on AI. Their new Quick Recovery feature was basically not tested and forced me to re-install:

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/10/windows-updat...

You know what that did? Today I removed Steam from my Windows partition. I am gaming on Mint now. Imagine being so bad at YOUR ONE JOB that even gaming, the ultimate Microsoft forte, is being eaten away at.

Because they don't have a vision for the entire OS apart from sticking a copilot button in every app. Current windows has so many features that I am sure even current MS employees have little idea about, and because of that, have been rewritten many times over. Sometimes I wonder if they even have any idea about what's going on in registries or how are you supposed to figure out certain policies in hybrid mode - between defender/intune and GPOs. Good luck figuring out windows hello vs convenience pin, or when defender goes haywire and starts blocking stuff etc etc.

In windows you have 5 versions of apps for each era of windows, in m365 you have 5 different dashboards showing same information just a little bit differently so you have to know all of them if you need info A and B.

But at least in admin.microsoft you have Copilot and Agents above Users and Groups, because ef'in up your muscle memory is important ...

> Connect the dots. They fired the humans, let a hallucinating chatbot write the kernel, and then shipped the beta to us.

No, that's a hypothesis, one amongst many, with no evidence provided.

> Connect the dots. They fired American workers, brought in H1B’s from India while also increasing their offices in India. AI didn’t break Windows, cheaper labor and the effort to increase bottom line did.

Microsoft is such an unmitigated disaster. The stock is doing fine now, but in a decade Nadella is going to be remembered like Jack Welch—a CEO who corroded the company from the inside trying to chase quarterly numbers.

Once the managers and not the engineers drive innovation at an engineering company, it's basically over. "Innovation". These companies take a while to bleed, but they bleed.

I have to say, tough - we can point at GE and Boeing, but that was a true slow burn. Even by today's crazy pace of, well, everything, Nadella seems to have taken the express lane to ruin.

Stage 2 of what happens when you fire all your QA engineers

And leave PMs who personally specialize in people-management and product design to be the backstop for reported product QA.

QA? What's that? /s

In all seriousness, it's been a long time since I've seen a dedicated QA position instead of just assuming that devs will test as they go.

would be fun to see an AI who take care of another AI who write a code

This would be more convincing if I hadn't lived through BSOD... I mean Windows 95.

Hey, they fixed the BSODs eventually. That screen's black now.

So it's still a BSOD!

I don’t understand why the department of defense Chooses this insecure incompetence

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