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Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

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Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

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Post by franktankbank »

water-data-dude wrote: post #75
prmoustache wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> so I had to reformat my machine to get Windows running again. I can hear everyone in choir saying "but why would you do that?" If Microsoft would ever do that to me in an update, I would install an immutable Linux distro on my machine and run windows as a VM (only if I had a strong requirement for it). That way you can do snapshots you can restore from easily.

The only reason I use Windows is probably the same reason a lot of people use Windows: the company I work for requires it. It's a small company and they don't want IT to have to support more than one OS, so I _get_ why, but man do I hate it. Linux on my non-work machine tho. Windows 11 made me rip off the bandaid and get rid of the windows dual boot I very occasionally used for some old software.

If you can only pick one OS why not pick a good one then lol

Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

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Post by kstrauser »

quietsegfault wrote: post #72
kstrauser wrote: post #24

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Not the person you replied to, but I’ll go. Try experimenting with ham radio on anything but Windows. As far as I can tell, they revoke your Apple developer’s license and confiscate your Linux install disks when you start selling radio hardware. That’s not completely true. There’s good Linux and Mac software for lots of things. But approximately 100% of radio manufacturers ship Windows software. Far fewer support any…

Almost all the “good” radio software runs primarily on Windows. Almost all of it is ancient in ways that genuinely suck. It’s like going back in time!

So true! “Thank your buying Yaesu! Here’s your configuration app. Requirements: Windows 98 or below.”

Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

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Post by Bluescreenbuddy »

pinkmuffinere wrote: post #38

> “ Microsoft has received a limited number…” I always find this wording funny; the “limited” conveys no information but downplays the issue in a non-specific way. I wish we could have standardized writing guidelines for press reports, to call out such weasel words

I deployed it to a few machines here at my job and thankfully we've had zero issues. The outlook issue is for POP accounts and if you're using outlook, you're probably using Exchange. The RDP issue is for modern RDP clients like the Windows App (we use the the old RDP app since we're mostly on prem) and so far no one has experienced any boot issues. We use one OEM across a few models. I'm hoping it stays this smooth one it's fully deployed.

Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

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Post by ulfw »

expedition32 wrote: post #67
kyriakos wrote: post #8

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If nobody cared about windows there wouldn't be any posts like this one everyday on HN. The problem is people do care and need to use windows which makes all these stupidity by Microsoft the recent years frustrating.

I am not going to defend MS but I have to say that the frustration is less than it was in the 90s. Reinstalling Windows used to take an entire afternoon. Now I can do it in an hour. Basically Windows and computers in general have always been frustrating.

I've never once installed macOS in 20 years of using the platform

Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

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Post by kshri24 »

direwolf20 wrote: post #77
kshri24 wrote: post #54

Microsoft needs to go back to basics and keep the OS dead simple. No AI cruft. AI is good only for certain categories and specific ways of integration. It falls apart quickly if you do not know how to glue things together properly and just use it in anything and everything (for example: adding AI to Notepad was the stupidest thing Microsoft could do).

Why does Microsoft need to do these things to retain shareholder value?

Contributing to AI fatigue among consumers is not the way to retain shareholder value. Tastefully integrated AI is what will bring enthusiasm among consumers, which will generate REAL revenues (not inflated valuations) and have a direct impact on the bottom line. It is ridiculous to destroy existing user base just to satisfy some vanity metrics on AI usage.

Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

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Post by bdcravens »

edg5000 wrote: post #51
bdcravens wrote: post #30

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A number of the Autodesk tools and Solidworks, for modeling. Slicers can use APIs native to Windows to perform model repairs. Bambu Lab's farm manager only runs on Windows.

Not sure about Autodesk, but have you tried FreeCAD? I own a perpetual SolidWorks license but haven't even activated it. Used it quite lot on another license but I just prefer FreeCAD so much. It does choke on high primitive counts though. Probably has worse FEA (invokes external simulation tools) but that is an assumption, never did FEA. Mostly did parametric CAD, not much technical drawings either, can't say much a…

Bambu (and other slicers in the same Prusa Slicer family) runs fine on Windows and Mac. It's the automatic model repair that gives it a leg up on Windows.

Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

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Post by bdcravens »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #37
bdcravens wrote: post #30

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A number of the Autodesk tools and Solidworks, for modeling. Slicers can use APIs native to Windows to perform model repairs. Bambu Lab's farm manager only runs on Windows.

The Creality one runs decent on Mac and Windows, sadly on Linux its a nightmare, and technically why I ditched Ubuntu / popOS for Arch Linux, but I can't help but still feel it runs a little weirder + its out of date compared to Mac and Windows versions. My buddy used to use Orca slicer on my printer, that one iirc should run on Mac too, but I havent tried it.

Bambu (and Orca, etc) runs fine on Windows and Mac. It's the automatic model repair that gives it a leg up on Windows.

Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

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Post by saghm »

kyriakos wrote: post #8
jampa wrote: post #5

I am glad that I don't need to use Windows anymore. When I did, the LTSC version (the one made for ATM and Kiosks) was the only one that was productivity-friendly. Microsoft doesn't want to accept that no one cares about Windows, and the OS is the thing that gets you to the thing you want to do. I saw 2 instances of people getting "updating windows" in their personal laptops when they tried to present something and l…

If nobody cared about windows there wouldn't be any posts like this one everyday on HN. The problem is people do care and need to use windows which makes all these stupidity by Microsoft the recent years frustrating.

I think the point is that they don't care about Windows in particular as much as the my care about having something that works out of the box for them, and for years that was Windows. Not many people really want Windows to iterate with new features, and in practice it seems that they aren't really able to push those features without breaking the stability, which is the one feature people do actually want, and that leads to backlash like this. The best Windows is the one that gets out of the way and lets users not care about it.

Re: Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

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Post by saghm »

expedition32 wrote: post #74
dessimus wrote: post #69

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I'm not certain what point you are attempting to make, The size of Windows install has not smaller and therefore improving install time, but rather the hardware has gotten so much faster. Installing from a USB 3 key is so much faster than floppy or optical media, as well as NVMe drives are receiving the data vs old spinning rust drives.

Ah my point is that Widows hasn't gotten worse. You can probably still find old forum posts complaining about Vista... It was always bad. It is now easier to fix it. We are making progress lol.

You can find complaints about Windows Vista, but then find praise around Windows 7. Being better than a single point in the past doesn't imply a trend. The perceived quality varies between releases, and it's clear that Windows 11 has dipped in that regard.
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