Patch Tuesday meets Groundhog Day as Windows hibernation bug returns

Microsoft rounded off January by adding more devices to the list of those affected by the hibernation issue it claimed had been fixed by an out-of-band update. The company acknowledged that problems remained via its Release Health Dashboard on January 30. The company noted that Secure Launch-capable PCs with Virtual Secure …

[Doctor Syntax]

It reboots? That's good. You know it will boot. So just shut down instead of hibernating. Booting's too slow? First world problem.

[GNoMe]

The problem being that if you shut down it reboots, if you hibernate it reboots. You have to force a shutdown by holding the power button down or put it to sleep and hope the battery lasts.

[elsergiovolador]

Why they don't build servers with breathing holes that you'd have to cover with a pillow to shut down? Holding a button for a few seconds is a bit tame.

[Doctor Syntax]

"You have to force a shutdown by holding the power button down"

So do that.

[IGotOut]

Forcing a power down by holding the button is far from ideal.

Do you shares in MS? Just wondering why you're effectively supporting their fuck up.

[Eric 9001]

I've never had to force a shutdown of a computer in a non-crashed state on GNU/Linux{-libre} - why can't windows do something so basic?

Even when the GPU driver has completely crashed (sometimes happens if you use clock gating with Nouveau), you can usually still do Alt+SysRq+c or Alt+SysRq+o to poweroff in a cleaner way than holding the power button down.

[Ken Shabby]

Whenever I do this with my Lenovo Laptop, it boots up with the fan sounding like a 747 taking off. So I have to software restart, go to the bios and reset it, one bitch of a bug feeding another.

[Pickle Rick]

I have just come up with...

...a brilliant new drinking game! Go on, have a guess!

[Oh Matron!]

Most secure OS ever!

If it won't wake up, it can't be hacked, right?

[sarusa]

Vibe coding going great still

Remember, all this stuff is vibe coded now. Who woulda guessed?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Vibe coding going great still

Developers have been fixing the first bug they find instead of the actual bug since the dawn of IT.

[chuckufarley]

I am amazed...

...Not by how bad Windows has become. No, that was inevitable. I fact I made a post along those lines nearly nine years ago I think. Anyway, what amazes me is that are still people on youtube posting videos telling people not to switch to Linux.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: I am amazed...

Because it's Youtube? :)

[xanadu42]

A New definition for QA?

Quackery Abounds...

[Remurkable1]

We've Seen This Day Before

Patch Tuesday seems to have an appropriate connection with Groundhog Day (the movie), as patching Windows seems like having to relive the same day over and over and over . . .

[DLYONS]

who what wrote the code?

hummmmmmmm!

[Groo The Wanderer - A Canuck]

I guess they should have had a HUMAN fix the shutdown bug instead of their Artificial Ignorance systems.

[Anonymous Coward]

So what's the point of Bug, sorry, Patch Tuesday now?

This whole Patch Tuesday thing was started to camouflage just how much patching Microsoft products need in order to stay safe or at least stand a chance at pretending to be so (or the flood of updates would eventually slow down).

However, now we have:

- Patch Tuesday

- Out of band (read: non Patch Tuesday) patches for Patch Tuesday

- (not often mentioned) Office almost 365 updates that make their own randomised appearance whenever Redmond feels like it

The camouflage is wearing thin..