A lot of computer experts have complained about how MS has built their patches for a long time, in software engineering terms it's called regression testing, and it involves testing the patch against everything everything in the software which means fixing X doesn't break C. Clearly something is not getting caught in their regression testing for things like this to fail when the patch goes live.
But it's actually a much bigger problem having to do with the underlying structure of how Microsoft builds their operating system. Basically there's a huge criticism of how their project management group is managing the entirety of how their development is putting everything together, which is leading to this problem with the regression testing.
The problem is that to fix this, it would require a full rewrite of Windows 10. It cannot be expressed how huge of an undertaking that would be. It would literally be a multi-year quest, and in the end you'd have a 1.0 product with all sorts of things broken and new patches being released regularly to fix things.
It's an ugly situation and there's no easy way to fix it. They can try and improve their regression testing, but I think they're kinda stuck. They tied their wagon to the concept of Windows 10 being the final version of Windows forever. According to their previous concept, if they don't deviate from it, there will be no Windows 11. So they're kind of eternally wed to this problem. If they're smart, they'll start developing Windows 11 and fix this problem then announce that they meant that Windows 10 was going to be the only release in 2010, and release 11 in 2021.
But it's actually a much bigger problem having to do with the underlying structure of how Microsoft builds their operating system. Basically there's a huge criticism of how their project management group is managing the entirety of how their development is putting everything together, which is leading to this problem with the regression testing.
The problem is that to fix this, it would require a full rewrite of Windows 10. It cannot be expressed how huge of an undertaking that would be. It would literally be a multi-year quest, and in the end you'd have a 1.0 product with all sorts of things broken and new patches being released regularly to fix things.
It's an ugly situation and there's no easy way to fix it. They can try and improve their regression testing, but I think they're kinda stuck. They tied their wagon to the concept of Windows 10 being the final version of Windows forever. According to their previous concept, if they don't deviate from it, there will be no Windows 11. So they're kind of eternally wed to this problem. If they're smart, they'll start developing Windows 11 and fix this problem then announce that they meant that Windows 10 was going to be the only release in 2010, and release 11 in 2021.
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