X-Box One update failure raises awkward questions about the future prospects of console hardware
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this isn't a console failure, it's a Microsoft failure. I wonder how many more catastrophic failures Microsoft is going to have before everyone abandons ship.
Jesus, Microsoft software quality has been a joke since, basically forever. They've had huge fuckups with their core OS properties. Windows ME. Windows 8. Windows 10. Windows 11 (which is STILL a hodgepodge of Windows 3.1 / Windows 95 / Windows 10 style administration programs).
If anyone expects excellence out of Microsoft products, they haven't been paying attention for the last 40 years.
Microsoft is good enough, relatively cheap, runs on anything, and has a lot of old business programs that will still run. That's it.
Today Microsoft is effectively the cloud business. Everything else is an afterthought.
XP and 7 usually worked well enough, and 8 and Vista didn't get very far because they were genuinely dogshit. Yet 10 only became halfway decent years after it was first released, is still incredibly finicky about what hardware it'll run on, is notorious for updates that fuck everything up, etc, and 11 is the same bullshit repeating itself.
Microsoft has always had its problems, but it does seem to be getting much worse.
Windows 11 is such garbage. I have a PC from right before it was released that windows 10 keeps freaking out that I'm not eligible for an upgrade... just because I have an option checked "wrong" in windows 10.
I'm not updating until I'm forced.
It's such an irritating mess. Some things are in settings, some are in control panel, some you have to know a run command for. At least in my network support days the XPs and 98s I had mostly everything was in one place.
My favorite Windows is actually NT 4.0 that I ran in the late 90s. It just worked and was so solid. Except for DOS games. I was a younger teen then, but I was making money doing web development so gaming was on the backburner or a console. When I did game, modern Direct3D stuff worked great, and I had ZDoom. So I was happy.