Microsoft Windows Firewall complains about Microsoft code A mysterious piece of "under development" code is playing havoc with the Windows Firewall after the latest preview update for Windows 11 24H2. The problem manifests as an error in the Event Viewer for Windows Firewall With Advanced Security and can occur following the installation of the June 2025 Windows non-security preview …
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A problem at many companies is that when intelligent, effective, games-playing rat-bastards manipulate themselves into positions of high authority, the corporate environment turns toxic, and everyone (who wants to keep their job) is forced into gaming the numbers.
Coders KPI'd on code checkins start making checkins for every stinkin' little thing, far beyond any reasonable level of granularity. Hell Desk staffers KPI'd on calls handled per hour will say things like, "Try x, and if that doesn't work, call me back." Some will even hang up on the caller, and mark the incident as "Closed by customer" in the support incident database.
People who are "rated by the numbers", vs by actual management knowledge of their workers and the work they do, do not have time to do good jobs; they're too busy dog-paddling to stay afloat despite the KPI-weights dragging them down.
Back in the 2000s, I had a few interactions with Microsoft support, and the PSEs all were knowlegable and helpful. That said, we weren't calling first-tier Hell Deskers to ask, "Why is my Word document not paginating correctly?" We had a ~$20K/year support contact with M.S., and we spoke to third-tier support, asking questions like, "Why is CCM [neé OnCommand] not seeing some of our PCs, even though they're joined to our domain and the user is signed on using their domain account?"
"Hell Desk staffers KPI'd on calls handled per hour"
Or number of tickets closed. I strongly suspect my employer's IT department is graded on tickets closed; it would explain why, when I call to find out the status of a ticket, they create another ticket just to tell me that the first ticket hasn't made any headway. Again. Each ticket gets its own feedback form, though, so I tend to answer with "speed: 5/5. satisfaction: 1/5. Comment: Just called to ask about a ticket status, why create another ticket for that?" Not that anyone reads the comments.
Interesting.
When I receive spam I report it to the hosting organisation that was used to send it. Should that sender be Microsoft then I receive an automated response *not* thanking me and stating that they are looking into the issue, or even that I should file a complaint at some online form, but that the abuse role account is not monitored and offering precisely no alternative.
Cunts.
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"a feature that is currently under development and not fully implemented"
As a quite long in the tooth engineer I have to ask -- what on earth is an "under development" "feature" doing in a production release? Or have we reached the bottomless pit where there's no such thing any more as a production release? If so, that would explain a lot about the abysmal quality of current software.
"what on earth is an "under development" "feature" doing in a production release? Or have we reached the bottomless pit where there's no such thing any more as a production release?”
Ding.., ding...ding; and this is the correct answer.
No MS really don’t give the tiniest shit about you or your company, push ‘xyz’ out and it breaks your entire company; sorry about that, what are you going to do?
And, maybe they learn something from the effects of ‘xyz’, but it won’t help you, because they don’t care about you, has it improved their LLM?
To me, Windows 11 24H2 totally IS a hall of shame. Microsoft's fixation (aka Satya Nadella's directives) with injecting AI into everything they work on, to the exclusion of all else, has got to be the problem. And then they have the audacity to say that 25H2 is basically the same code? Don't expect anything better, in that case. Seems to me that the C Suite have laid off all the software Engineers and are probably relying far too much on the doubtful and often faulty output from AI, to code this stuff.
Windows Firewall "is expected to function normally,"
Well Pip, that would also be trivially true if you were to turn the firewall off.
Actually more so as it's functioning (or more properly lack of) is not only completely expected and predicable but vastly more reliable.
As a schoolboy Dickens' opus was of course Great Expectorations.
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