Posted on 11/21/2025 4:15:26 PM PST by yesthatjallen
It has been a troublesome week or two for Microsoft, for sure. Earlier today, the company fixed a Microsoft 365 outage that made files unusable; downtimes like this seem to happen on a fairly regular basis.
Meanwhile on the Windows side, it has probably been worse. The tech giant got blamed by Nvidia today as the latest Patch Tuesday is leading to performance issues in games. The GPU maker has released an emergency hotfix driver to resolve the problems.
This comes hot on the heels of the massive backlash that the company's Windows boss recently faced due to the evolution of the operating system into an agentic OS as unveiled earlier this week.
On the positive side though, following all that backlash, Microsoft acknowledged Windows has issues, and as if on cue, the company in a new support article has admitted that there are problems on almost every major Windows 11 core feature. The issues are related to XAML and this impacts all the Shell components like the Start Menu, Taskbar, Explorer, and Windows Settings.
Interestingly, while Microsoft is only acknowledging the issue in November 2025, this has been a problem since the July 2025 Patch Tuesday update (KB5062553), so that is four months. Also since Windows 11 25H2 shares the same codebase as version 24H2, the newest Windows 11 feature update is also impacted.
In the support article Microsoft explains:
"After provisioning a PC with a Windows 11, version 24H2 monthly cumulative update released on or after July 2025 (KB5062553), various apps such as StartMenuExperiencehost, Search, SystemSettings, Taskbar or Explorer might experience difficulties.
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You’ll like it, but it doles take some getting used to. I loaded it on to an older laptop over a year ago, and for the most part it’s fine. (The great thing about it is does not keep requiring you to buy newer machines all the time.) There are some things it doesn’t do as well. Personally, I really like Outlook and some other features of Office. Libre is adequate, but not as good in my estimation.
I don't use Microsoft 365. LibreOffice instead.
got blamed by Nvidia today as the latest Patch Tuesday is leading to performance issues in games.
I don't use Nvidia (Ryzen integrated graphics instead), and do not play computer games.
issues are related to XAML and this impacts all the Shell components like the Start Menu, Taskbar, Explorer, and Windows Settings.
I use Explorer patcher which enables customized W/10 Taskbar and Open Shell for the Start Menu. And have delayed/not upgraded from 23H2 to the latest W/11 version.
Best to wait till bugs are worked out.
My cat videos are still good.
Ditto that. Win7 is rock stable. No need for anything else yet.
Which Mac processor do you have? One of the newer Apple M’s, or is it an older intel?
Currently a 14” MacBook Pro with the M1 Pro chip. Works fine for all the tasks for my normal work load. If was was doing lots of processor intensive tasks, like Adobe Premiere video editing or running CAD software in Windows I would upgrade but other wise no complaints.
The first step to recovery is Microsoft realizes they have a problem......
They will have to go to ‘operating system anonymous’ and take the 10 step recovery program.
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