> "This has been a real problem again in the Windows 10 era. By around 2008, Microsoft seemed to have finally gotten their patch process cleaned up to the point

> "This has been a real problem again in the Windows 10 era. By around 2008, Microsoft seemed to have finally gotten their patch process cleaned up to the point that if you were only taking security patches, they generally installed cleanly and mostly didn't break random things. By about 2016 this has backslid and now Windows 10 seems intent on large scale combined updates and constant servicing stack updates that with undocumented consequences." Microsoft laid off all their QA staff in 2014, so it's hardly surprising. If anything, it's a wonder that it's not much, much worse than it is now.