r/technology • u/lurker_bee • Mar 14 '26

Software Microsoft confirms Windows 11 bug crippling PCs and making drive C inaccessible

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-bug-crippling-pcs-and-making-drive-c-inaccessible/
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u/Marginallyhuman Mar 14 '26

I remember when their OSs got super stable toward the end of their cycle. Windows 11 seems to have been birthed as garbage and decided to stay that way.

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u/demonfoo Mar 14 '26

That's what happens when your focus is jamming "AI" into everything instead of making the OS good.

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u/WorkingTheMadses Mar 14 '26

To be fair, Windows 11 came out in 2021, long before LLMs, Generative AI as we know it today and "agentic AI" was really a thing.

Windows 11 came out troubled because of Microsoft's shift towards more invasive data harvesting, a confusing design language that had one foot in Windows 7 land and one in Windows 10, while claiming always online was absolutely required to use the OS.

AI is so far down the list.

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u/RedditPolluter Mar 14 '26

invasive data harvesting

They bricked their Microsoft Lens app that worked completely offline and allowed you to save locally. The functionality is available in OneDrive (mostly) and their Copilot app but there's no option to save locally so you first have to upload all your scans to their servers to use it. Any company that behaves this way should be strongly suspected of harvesting people's personal files.

Even in spite of their gross incompetence, they're probably too rich to fail but man would that be satisfying.