Progress. It looks as if they're starting to take notice of the alpha testers before rolling it out to beta.
Microsoft yanks Windows 11 preview update after install failures
Microsoft has halted the rollout of a Windows update after some users encountered installation errors. The update, KB5079391, was released last week as a preview rather than a security update. Installation on some devices failed with a 0x80073712 error, and Microsoft temporarily pulled the plug on Friday night. The Windows …
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Monday 30th March 2026 14:59 GMT Steve Davies 3
Another FootGun moment from Microsoft
Will they ever learn?
Can Donald Trump Fly like a bird?
The answer to both is NO.
Notice that the alternatives (Linux and MacOS) are not prone to this level of cockups. While they aren't perfect, they do seem to have their update processes sorted so that the Bork Events don't happen.
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Monday 30th March 2026 20:10 GMT Omnipresent
Re: Another FootGun moment from Microsoft
except the key board does and says what ever it wants to now, and quite often gets you into trouble. The privacy window is so wide open I have to nail it shut to keep my mother in law and coworkers out of it, and nobody knows how to work the phone anymore.
It now takes 5 minutes to type a 10 second sentence.
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Tuesday 31st March 2026 05:46 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Another FootGun moment from Microsoft
I found that Bluetooth is sometimes prone to problems if you have a mobile phone in between BT device and computer. I fixed that by moving the mobile phone (easier than moving the computer/keyboard). Was independent of OS, btw, it was a hardware issue.
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Wednesday 1st April 2026 14:45 GMT CrazyOldCatMan
Re: Football played by hummingbirds?
I'd watch that
Certainly more fun than the real thing.
(Except for the women's game - *actual* football [1], played by people who don't want to roll around on the pitch screaming if an opposing player comes within 30cm of them..)
[1] 'Soccer' for leftpondians. Who seem to play a descendent of Rugby League that takes out everything that makes RL actually enjoyable.. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy American Football [2] but the US tendancy to take a very simple [3] game and make it mind-boggingly complex by adding lots of tiny little rules [4] is in full view. I'm expecting a new rule of "15 yard penalty for having non-Trump-branded socks" soon..)
[2] As exemplified in the No Fun League that seems to exist purely to separate fans from as much of their cash as possible. I've been watching it (as much as is possible from the Civilised side of the pond. Which, apparently, is often more than the US side can see because of their protectionist stance) for longer than some of the El Reg commentards have been alive. Yes, I'm old.
[3] Get the ball forward 10 yards in 4 goes with only one forward pass per go. Not the most complex rule-set in the world..
[4] Go on, try to explain what constitutes a catch. I dare you.
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Monday 30th March 2026 15:59 GMT ComicalEngineer
High standard in comparison to what?
"Windows boss Pavan Davuluri recently wrote to users: "Thank you for holding us to a high standard,"
I've been using Windows since 1995. Whilst I can remember odd glitches with the versions I used (95 / 98 / XP / 10) I can't recall anything like the number and severity of issues that there has been with W11.
Early days of W10 occasionally meant that we had to recapture printers but that took a few seconds and didn't bork the system. Indeed I can't remember any W10 update borking our systems. XP had occasional problems but it was relatively easy to do a rollback if necessary. Anyhow, the software should have become MORE reliable since XP was released in 2001, not LESS.
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Tuesday 31st March 2026 00:06 GMT An_Old_Dog
Re: High standard in comparison to what?
MS Vista took less than five minutes after finishing all available driver and MS updates to drive me to zero the hard drive and install Ubuntu.
Biggest pisser was video tearing when I moved my mouse "too quickly" across the screen during ordinary desktop operations under Vista (I didn't try gaming).
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Tuesday 31st March 2026 01:19 GMT cyberdemon
Re: 10 card
My dad (who is on win10) also got an update this weekend that borked various things in weird ways, e.g. the printer driver disappeared and needed to be reinstalled
Office got a nasty update with a splash-screen about "required telemetry" too, which also reset all of the privacy options to the default "send everything to Microsoft" and had to be reverted, except for the "required" stuff which now cannot. There are now THREE clicks on semi-hidden UI elements required in order to save a file to the local drive instead of OneDrive, where there used to be two.
"Make It Shitty!"
It makes me glad that I am on Linux and can choose my updates (and generally be happy with them, or revert them as I see fit)
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Tuesday 31st March 2026 05:54 GMT Anonymous Coward
No more Bug Tuesday?
It seems to me we're back to ye olde Bug Everyday - you know, the problem that got so interruptive Microsoft implemented a monthly collection to camouflage the sheer volume of patches required to keep the ship from completely sinking?
Which, btw, never seems to end which I personally suspect to be deliberate because that's the fear factor that blackmails you into paying your monthly tax on computing. Given that what you get has an ever increasing quality problem (something they're now briefly offering excuses for, but probably only until you stop complaining).
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Tuesday 31st March 2026 11:23 GMT Gavsky
El Reg, this is no longer news, or worth a headline - just tell us when Microsoft releases an 'update' that just...works. Street parties & fireworks await.
Yes, I know it's hideously complicated & there are endless system permutations, so issues arise - but things have definitely got worse over recent years.
