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[–] 7 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I love to shit on Microsoft as much as the next lemming, but this error message is way out of context. This was a bug in the January quality update (quality lol), and has been addressed.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/24/microsoft-admits-it-accidentially-crashed-apps-like-notepad-paint-snipping-tool-on-windows-11-rolls-out-a-fix/

Windows doesn't require you to sign into the MS store to use notepad or paint.

Source: end user compute engineer who had to deal with this shit.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Okay but why was there functionality in place for this to break in the first place? Notepad shouldn't need the store involved at all and why are they pushing our bugs like this that should be caught in testing.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    My guess? Because they fired a shitload of engineers and are having the remaining ones pick up the slack with AI vibe coding. They are pushing slop to prod and breaking shit left and right because they need to prove that destroying the world with AI data centers is worth it.

    Spoiler altert: it's not. Having well trained and talented engineers wite the code works better.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Because enterprise is Microslop's real customer, and the consumer is the QA now.

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