Personal anecdote, but I've had Microsoft apps like Outlook and Teams crash on me on 4 different days this week while at work. Is anyone else getting similar instability issues?
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Teams crashes or fails to work for me at least a few times a week and has for months. Outlook glitches out daily. I legit started using the web access instead of actual Outlook because it constantly bugged out.
Both Teams and Outlook are so ridiculously slow for what they do and the hardware they are running on.
Meanwhile in Windows 11: 4 years after release and I still can't click on the clock on my secondary monitor to look at the calendar.
That's what happens when you start using LLMs for all of your software development. Garbage code all day long.
my windows 10 stability has been horrendous the past month or so
constant file explorer and office program crashes, random reboots and blue screens, lock ups. no consistent pattern to it that I can tell.
also getting weird glitches in teams that I've never seen before that require a force close and restart to make it usable again
I haven't had teams crash, just behaving badly, not marking chats read, not moving updated chats to the top.
Last issue I had with Windows was that I couldn't update because my EFI partition was too small (the partition is created automatically on install). Why do I never get the funny ones?
!demicrosoft@programming.dev
why does the guy in the meme always looked stoned.
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I’ve never noticed this. Mostly because I basically never close Task Manager. Because programs hanging is common enough that it’s actually useful to have Task Manager open on a separate screen.
On an unrelated note, I must set myself a reminder for tomorrow to give installing Linux another go…
I have mostly abandoned Win for many years (I only have gaming PC where I still have dual boot) Has it really gotten that bad? Every time I boot up Win I am shocked how long this clean PC with only Games installed and high end hardware takes to get ready. But at least it does its job.
On Linux (Kubuntu in my case) I haven't had an issue with hanging software in a long time. Even browsers have become completely stable.
Every Windows machine I’ve ever had just gets slower and slower over time. It takes several years, but after 2-3 years it’s taking ages to do basic tasks. I’m just kind of tired of it at this point.
It's incredible how quick they become when converted to Linux (though I always put light weight Linuxes on old machines, and that may have contributed)
From what I saw about this bug, it's not just that it duplicates the window when closed. You had to have typed "X" into it first and then closing it would cause the duplication behavior.
Well that is unacceptable behavior