Re: What’s Your Candidate For Stupidest Microsoft Bug?

On Tue, 4/29/2025 7:15 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

From the “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” of software bugs: Windows users
who chose a plain desktop background instead of a picture found their
login process taking longer -- instead of getting to their desktop
within a few seconds, it could take up to 30 seconds.
 
Why? It turned out that the login system was waiting for a
notification that all desktop components had loaded. The desktop
background component sent this notification after loading a picture,
but somehow the code path for a plain background colour forgot this
notification.
 
These are the sorts of stupidities in Dimdows that are slipping
through QA testing these days.
 
<https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-7-users-with-a-solid-background-color-faced-delayed-login-process-it-took-four-months-for-microsoft-to-fix>
 

On the contrary. It's commendable that an OS has such serialization.

And you know all the details of what would catch that
and what would not catch that.

Each kind of flaw, has a different "best place" to catch it.
And the answer is not "production" either.

Microsoft does not have legacy QA any more.

  Paul