> how long does it take MS to fix something..

I wouldn't be surprised if the related dev/QA teams were part of recent layoffs/offshoring.

Microsoft famously got rid of their test teams something like ten years ago.

What QA team? No seriously, all OS QA is now virtualized and automated, no more actual QA team.

They call it something else and seems to be integrated to Dev, but they do QA. Also I said "dev/QA teams". Dev as in development.

Until hell freezes over?

Honestly, I’ve seen a concerning behavior where the failures seem to escalate and get worse over time.

Flakey WiFi at the start? Just flat out broken now.

Weird stuff like nearly impossible to find/configure network connections? Worse over time.

It’s like whatever criteria the MS PM’s are using is prioritizing ‘engagement’ (aka how frustrated and angry someone gets at the OS) over anything else.

Microsoft don’t sell OS now. They sell their services using Windows as a platform. Naturally Windows is going to stagnate.

As SRE who deals with Azure, their services are not even Windows OS focused. They do sell a ton of that, mainly expensive solutions to legacy garbage code but a ton more assume open-source languages running on Linux.

And sadly Apple is going the exact same route now. Both are stagnating platforms now where bugs only accumulate and hardly get fixed and even the service delivery parts are just barely working. Enshittification in full swing. Both are more than ripe to be eaten by an alternative that puts users front and center again.

> Flakey WiFi at the start? Just flat out broken now.

I'm finding it super concerning that it seems like Microsoft isn't even pushing driver updates properly nowadays. Everything just sits as an 'optional update' hidden away buried under a couple more menus, and the latest drivers are jumbled in the list, and you can't tell which driver is for which device.

And that's how I discovered my WiFi was breaking out of the box because Microsoft had newer drivers they didn't push down...

In my case I turned driver updates off since they kept installing a broken video driver that left me with black screens on boot.