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Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

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Re: Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

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Post by SSLy »

mikestew wrote: post #24
xvxvx wrote: post #3

Aside from the audio issue, it feels like the remote access and pasting issues should have been discovered in QA. This constant slide in quality over the past few years has me looking to Linux as an option.

it feels like the remote access and pasting issues should have been discovered in QA. You're thinking of 20-years-ago Microsoft. Microsoft famously got rid of their software test teams like ten years ago. As one who worked there 20-some years ago on their test teams, I'd say the quality of their software is really starting to show the negative effects of such a move. (FWIW, we got rid of our last Windows machine in t…

that rotting lack of QA is now spreading through their Xbox subsidiaries too. WoW is much buggier than ~4 years ago.

Re: Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

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Post by throwaway85825 »

dgarciaf18 wrote: post #32

Do they even have automated testing? This should have been detected not only in one layer of the release process, but in serveral ones.

Not anymore. The test lab and testers got laid off. Now they test in production on end users.

Re: Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

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Post by kenhwang »

alphager wrote: post #23
kenhwang wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, it's gaming, drivers, and still too much Windows-only software. Wine/Proton has gotten really good, but still requires tinkering, and still sometimes has really bad performance. WiFi/BT drivers continue to be really terrible, there's connectivity but speed and reliability sometimes aren't there. Peripherals and motherboard chipset functionality still mostly won't work. Desktop environments are still clunky an…

Have you had recent experiences? I thought the same until I tried it out, on decision stable no less. The driver support nowadays is incredibly good on Linux (my desktop Bluetooth didn't work under Windows with official drivers; just works without any tinkering under Linux).

One of my machines is always Linux desktop; I've been using it to see if it's ready enough for my main desktop to switch over and so far my verdict has been it's not.

Last weekend I tried updating to Linux 7.2, and WiFi drivers failed to compile, so it's been fun.

Re: Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

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Post by Sharlin »

bakugo wrote: post #25

I keep hearing about how software development is a solved problem in the age of AI... and then reality hits, like we see here.

We just need QA agents to check the work of the coding agents (yeah, I’m sure that’s already a thing and people are saying this in all seriousness).
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