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I’m afraid that one morning, we’ll wake up, Windows is unbootable globally, and it’s because the desktop Widgets had a hardcoded certificate expire, causing an
by gjsman-1000 2y ago
I’m afraid that one morning, we’ll wake up, Windows is unbootable globally, and it’s because the desktop Widgets had a hardcoded certificate expire, causing an infinite taskbar crash.
Which actually happened in one of the Windows 11 preview releases.
It might not be Widgets next time - but there’s enough stupid in Windows that it could be anything from SmartScreen to Defender to Copilot to Edge. It could also be just something widespread and stupid, like Intel or NVIDIA’s driver analytics imploding.
- fallingsquirrel 2y agoI'm reminded of the time the Windows 11 Insiders taskbar was crashing for everyone because it failed to display an ad. https://www.neowin.net/news/how-an-ad-from-microsoft-broke-the-windows-11-start-menu-and-taskbar/ https://www.neowin.net/news/how-an-ad-from-microsoft-broke-t...