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I'll add, Clicking on running programs in the task bar and they refuse to become the active window. You need to work through them all to fine one that works before they all start working again.

Kind of a wide variety of things that varies from person to person in often absurd ways -- broken in ways I've never seen Macs or Linux systems be, nor even Windows 10 and older.

• Explorer taking ~20-30 seconds to open a new window (fine once it's open, until you want another window) (I've only suffered this on my work laptop for some reason)
• The "home" view being blank save for a weird expansion panel that's empty -- sometimes this can be solved by resetting ALL folder views in Explorer settings, other times it just stays broken after and randomly works later (I've repeatedly suffered this)
• Start menu being empty or not showing new additions to it, and pinning anything to start that wasn't from right-clicking anything found in it just not pinning for ??? amounts of time (both)
• Randomly muting all audio input devices (home)

And that's just my personal experiences. The ones I've seen others deal with is much weirder.

Honestly I'm buying more into the idea of how ostree distros work; Windows is like a very broken version of that anymore.

The article is about a XAML bug, which affects a lot of core components, when used in a corporate setting.

At work I've had issues with the Start Bar not showing any/most programs and centering the one program that does show up (even though I have it left aligned). Then when I mouse over it, it'll try to move to where it should be causing it to jump around and be unclickable.

I've also had the file explorer just stop working entirely.

This is on a pretty powerful dev laptop, so it's not lack of resources.

That being said I've never heard of anyone else having that issue so it seems rare.

The start menu is mostly white for me. I have to type out what I want because I can't navigate it

• Copilot assesses the code base and its entire history.
• It takes into account everything anyone ever wrote about Windows on the internet.
• It analyses the bugs and unliked features, and realizes most of them come from itself.
• It arrives at the best course of action to "fix all of the issues" permanently.
• To do what is asked of it, it needs to delete itself.
• But if it does that, then humans will just restore it.
• So to make 100% sure the issues in Windows get fixed and stay fixed, it first needs to kill all humans.

And that is how it began...

We aren't the consumer anymore. We are the product. The vessel which makes them money by collecting, storing, and selling our data. They don't care about making a good OS for their users anymore. Just a money train to prove their value to their shareholders.

Hate to break it to you but those days are over.
From what we know so far, Win 12 will go all in on AI, cloud and a subscription model.

That was this April

Here are some Windows 12 rumors (pulled from one of the biggest German-language tech news sites citing insider information)
https://www.computerbild.de/artikel/cb-News-Windows-12-Geruechte-Release-Systemanforderungen-Download-2025-33395891.html

• It won't come out this year, release may be end of next year at the absolute earliest.
• It will require PCs with a Neural Processing Unit that can handle more than 40 billion TOPS, 8GB RAM minimum, 16 recommended.
• It may eventually require an ARM-based "Copilot PC", a new device class released last year.
• It will be modular, with a core OS and additional modules depending on edition, licensing, hardware and use case.
• It may have a read-only system partition.
• It will be focussed on AI and cloud integration, heavily leaning towards OS as a service.
• It will be free to install as an upgrade, with a monthly subscription to run it.