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yep bricked my beelink SER9 which I had for 8 months only and i see the same error under windows update on my backup pc now: 2025-08 Cumulative Update for Win

yep bricked my beelink SER9 which I had for 8 months only and i see the same error under windows update on my backup pc now: 2025-08 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 Version 24H2 for x64-based Systems (KB5063878) (26100.4946) Failed to install on ‎17/‎08/‎2025 - 0x80073712 articles says August but I had this update stuck on failed for 2 months. bricked last pc now waiting for it to brick my current one. how long does it take MS to fix something..

tempodox 1y ago
Until hell freezes over?
- lazide 1y ago
  Honestly, I’ve seen a concerning behavior where the failures seem to escalate and get worse over time. Flakey WiFi at the start? Just flat out broken now. Weird stuff like nearly impossible to find/configure network connections? Worse over time. It’s like whatever criteria the MS PM’s are using is prioritizing ‘engagement’ (aka how frustrated and angry someone gets at the OS) over anything else.
  - kotaKat 1y ago
    > Flakey WiFi at the start? Just flat out broken now. I'm finding it super concerning that it seems like Microsoft isn't even pushing driver updates properly nowadays. Everything just sits as an 'optional update' hidden away buried under a couple more menus, and the latest drivers are jumbled in the list, and you can't tell which driver is for which device. And that's how I discovered my WiFi was breaking out of the box because Microsoft had newer drivers they didn't push down...
    - jonbiggums22 1y ago
      In my case I turned driver updates off since they kept installing a broken video driver that left me with black screens on boot.
  - vachina 1y ago
    Microsoft don’t sell OS now. They sell their services using Windows as a platform. Naturally Windows is going to stagnate.
    - stackskipton 1y ago
      As SRE who deals with Azure, their services are not even Windows OS focused. They do sell a ton of that, mainly expensive solutions to legacy garbage code but a ton more assume open-source languages running on Linux.
    - tempodox 1y ago
      And sadly Apple is going the exact same route now. Both are stagnating platforms now where bugs only accumulate and hardly get fixed and even the service delivery parts are just barely working. Enshittification in full swing. Both are more than ripe to be eaten by an alternative that puts users front and center again.
alecco 1y ago
> how long does it take MS to fix something.. I wouldn't be surprised if the related dev/QA teams were part of recent layoffs/offshoring.
- mikestew 1y ago
  Microsoft famously got rid of their test teams something like ten years ago.
- ComputerGuru 1y ago
  What QA team? No seriously, all OS QA is now virtualized and automated, no more actual QA team.
  - alecco 1y ago
    They call it something else and seems to be integrated to Dev, but they do QA. Also I said "dev/QA teams". Dev as in development.
BeelinkOfficial 1y ago
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tempodox 1y ago

Until hell freezes over?

lazide 1y ago
Honestly, I’ve seen a concerning behavior where the failures seem to escalate and get worse over time. Flakey WiFi at the start? Just flat out broken now. Weird stuff like nearly impossible to find/configure network connections? Worse over time. It’s like whatever criteria the MS PM’s are using is prioritizing ‘engagement’ (aka how frustrated and angry someone gets at the OS) over anything else.
- kotaKat 1y ago
  > Flakey WiFi at the start? Just flat out broken now. I'm finding it super concerning that it seems like Microsoft isn't even pushing driver updates properly nowadays. Everything just sits as an 'optional update' hidden away buried under a couple more menus, and the latest drivers are jumbled in the list, and you can't tell which driver is for which device. And that's how I discovered my WiFi was breaking out of the box because Microsoft had newer drivers they didn't push down...
  - jonbiggums22 1y ago
    In my case I turned driver updates off since they kept installing a broken video driver that left me with black screens on boot.
- vachina 1y ago
  Microsoft don’t sell OS now. They sell their services using Windows as a platform. Naturally Windows is going to stagnate.
  - stackskipton 1y ago
    As SRE who deals with Azure, their services are not even Windows OS focused. They do sell a ton of that, mainly expensive solutions to legacy garbage code but a ton more assume open-source languages running on Linux.
  - tempodox 1y ago
    And sadly Apple is going the exact same route now. Both are stagnating platforms now where bugs only accumulate and hardly get fixed and even the service delivery parts are just barely working. Enshittification in full swing. Both are more than ripe to be eaten by an alternative that puts users front and center again.

alecco 1y ago

> how long does it take MS to fix something.. I wouldn't be surprised if the related dev/QA teams were part of recent layoffs/offshoring.

mikestew 1y ago
Microsoft famously got rid of their test teams something like ten years ago.
ComputerGuru 1y ago
What QA team? No seriously, all OS QA is now virtualized and automated, no more actual QA team.
- alecco 1y ago
  They call it something else and seems to be integrated to Dev, but they do QA. Also I said "dev/QA teams". Dev as in development.

BeelinkOfficial 1y ago

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