Re: Dimdows Decay Syndrome Continues

On Fri, 2/7/2025 7:14 PM, Joel wrote:

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 1 Feb 2025 21:55:15 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:
>

Many years ago, a software engineer named Fred Brooks predicted that
some systems could get so complex that they would exceed a manageable
threshold of complexity, where every attempt to fix a bug would just
create new ones.
>
Microsoft passed this point a long time ago.

>
The sorry Dimdows 11 saga continues
<https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-11s-bug-fixing-update-is-making-things-worse/>.
This latest update is actually *adding* more net bugs on top of the
previous revision of the OS.
>
Have we gone beyond the Brooks threshold, and now entered a Kessler
Syndrome of runaway bug proliferation, where instead of merely
creating about one new bug for every one fixed, the “fixes” are
actually adding to an exponential decline in Microsoft’s software
quality?

 
 
This is nothing new, public beta testing, just run 23H2 or better yet,
upgrade to Linux.
 

"The latest issue centers around the Windows 11 24H2 preview update"
                                                     ^^^^^^^

Yeah, we don't install those. Those are voluntary, in that you click
that if you think there is something in that update for you.

It will appear again on Patch Tuesday, which would be the 11th of February.

A valuable place to gather intelligence, is the Reliability Monitor,
which keeps certain kinds of failures in a chart form. Nobody seems to
have bothered in that article, to check for messages in there.

That's an alternative to looking in EventVwr.msc .

TO get there, open Settings and type "Relia" into the top search bar.

   Paul