Patch Tuesday update makes Windows PCs refuse to shut down
www.theregister.com
: Microsoft claims it's a Secure Launch bug

“On systems with Secure Launch enabled, attempts to shut down, restart, or hibernate after applying the January patches may fail to complete.”

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    There was a famous bug that made it into 95 and 98, a tick counter that caused the system to crash after about a month. It was in there so long because there were so many other bugs causing stability problems that it wasn’t obvious.

    I will say that classic MacOS, which is what Apple was doing at the time, was also pretty unstable. Personal computer stability really improved in the early 2000s a lot. Mac OS X came out and Microsoft shifted consumers onto a Windows-NT-based OS.

    EDIT:

    https://www.cnet.com/culture/windows-may-crash-after-49-7-days/

    A bizarre and probably obscure bug will crash some Windows computers after about a month and a half of use.

    The problem, which affects both Microsoft Windows 95 and 98 operating systems, was confirmed by the company in an alert to its users last week.

    “After exactly 49.7 days of continuous operation, your Windows 95-based computer may stop responding,” Microsoft warned its users, without much further explanation. The problem is apparently caused by a timing algorithm, according to the company.