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

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

  <barf!>

  Are you for real!? Whingeing about a corner-case (non-)bug, *16 YEARS*
after the fact!?

  Same goes for the 'author' of the referenced 'article'.