Microsoft slips Task Manager and processor count fixes into Patch Tuesday

Microsoft has resolved two issues vexing Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 users among the many security updates that emerged on Patch Tuesday. While KB5046617 is a security update, it also contains several "quality improvements," including a fix for the Task Manager issue introduced in the October 2024 non-security …

[nojobhopes]

OCR?

Automated test tools for Windows have been around for decades, and while some have OCR capabilities, most do not need them. Automated tests can easily reach into the app and grab the status bar text, if the app uses Windows controls. And even in the modern world where there are too many windowing toolkits, tests should be able to rely on the controls exposed to Accessibility tools (like Screen Readers). On Windows we have the luxury of 2 standards, of course. Microsoft Active Accessibility or UI Automation API.

[cyberdemon]

Microsoft has resolved two issues vexing Windows 11 24H2 and Windows Server 2025 users

Is that a joke? Or have they really started issuing patches for the operating system that they foisted upon unsuspecting users, disguised as a patch to their existing OS?

[Kev99]

For how many years has mictosoft been palming off windows? And they still can't write a bug free program? Or one without megabytes (gigabytes?) of bloatware and junk files?

[VBF]

Regarding testing

With regard to the comment "Sure didn’t in my day, it was all manual testing…"

As a now retired Test Analyst, I was once offered a contract at Microsoft in UK. The rate offered was nearly 30% below what I was currently earning and the agency seemed surprised that I would DARE to turn down as prestigious a client as Microsoft.

Apparently what I was offered was MS's standard rate for the job.

I seem to recall a saying about paying peanuts and getting monkeys.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Regarding testing

Working for monkeys you get paid peanuts.

[Someone Else]

What was that, again?

Richard, in the article, asks the musical question:

But surely Microsoft has whizzy automated testing to check for such things?

No. Next question?

_{I understand rhetorical flourishes and all that, but really, Richard?}

[Anonymous Coward]

I am a L60 engineer for Microsoft in the UK and while most of the stuff is automated tested - there is still quite a lot that is being manually tested in the selfhosting circle which includes people from Microsoft, Dell, AMD, ASUS, Intel, and so many other hardware and software companies.

For example: A lot of the features being released in the Windows Insider Program in the past couple of weeks are quite a few years old because the process of making a feature and shipping it goes through several stages of legal approval, privacy approval, quality tests (automated and manual), development revisions, etc.