software quality

Windows Weekly 969 landed this week like an uneasy status report from the front lines: Windows 11 has quietly passed the one‑billion‑user mark, Microsoft’s AI factory is burning capital at an unprecedented rate, Xbox is wobbling, and the company’s public posture has shifted from feature sprint...

Microsoft has acknowledged that Windows 11’s quality has fallen short of its own standards and is redirecting engineering resources to fix core performance and reliability problems—an admission that comes after a string of high‑visibility update regressions and growing community frustration...

Microsoft’s continued evolution of Windows 11 reaches a significant milestone with the upcoming 25H2 update, especially in how the company approaches hardware driver quality and security. While most users focus on surface-level changes like the user interface or new features, some of the most...

If you found yourself suddenly transported back to the mid-2000s when powering up your modern Windows 11 PC, you're definitely not alone. An unexpected blast from the past recently hit testers when preview builds of Windows 11’s Dev Channel started chiming not with the serene, minimalistic notes...

For more than a decade, Microsoft has leaned on a select group of its employees—known as the Microsoft Elite—to usher its products from early-stage prototypes to polished commercial releases. This internal “super-user” community, which recently celebrated its tenth anniversary, has grown into an...

The evolution of quality assurance methodologies has become one of the most striking narratives in the ongoing transformation of software development and delivery cycles. With artificial intelligence moving beyond the speculative realm of science fiction to become a disruptive force in modern...

Microsoft’s rocky 2025 software patching saga has drawn renewed scrutiny from IT administrators, enterprise customers, and power users, following another problematic Remote Desktop bug that left some Windows Server 2025 and Windows 11 24H2 users effectively locked out of their sessions. The...

Nobody quite warns you how your relationship with your computer changes when you swap Apple’s cosseted gardens for the wild, windy plains of Windows. It’s a migration that feels a bit like leaving a five-star resort where slippers are always fluffy and staff anticipate every need, only to...

Google’s Chrome installer for Windows users encountered a baffling hiccup recently – one that left many scratching their heads and, in one instance, even led some to give up on installation altogether. In this article, we delve into the details of what went wrong, why it took so long to fix, and...

So, I downloaded Windows 10. Took about an hour. Attempted to logon, froze. Restarted my computer, tried to login again, froze. Repeat process 100 times with similar results. Fix this. I have important work on my computer I MUST do. I waited on hd for an hour and a half and my call was...

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 RC is a friction free source-code-control, project-management, and team-collaboration platform at the core of the Microsoft suite of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, which help teams be more agile, collaborate more effectively, and deliver...

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 RC is a source-code-control, project-management, and team-collaboration platform at the core of the Microsoft suite of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools, which help teams be more agile, collaborate more effectively, and deliver quality...

Could anyone recommend a good quality FTP scheduler tool? I've been using FTP Voyager v.15, which has an excellent scheduler, but I recently started using Windows 8 and v.15 of FTP Voyager doesn't work so well. Version 16 of FTP Voyager is free and probably does work, but they made big changes...

Microsoft really needs to improve it's various security, both in it's software and on it's websites, before it thinks about releasing Windows 10. I'm by no mean's a Microsoft hater. I've used Windows since 1995 with my 1st pc that had Windows 95, I've use 95, XP, Vista, 8, 8.1 and 10. I've also...

You know how people have been complaining that quality apps are few in numbers in the windows 8 winstore? Well, I've been trying to help MS out by porting some of my quality apps over to windows 8. I've recently ported one of my more useful apps into the metro interface. The app itself is...

It is rubbish - so full of bugs its almost completely unusable.......... Microsoft have completely lost the plot