Let’s take a look at how things are going at Microsoft, whose CEO claimed a few months ago that 30% of their code was generated by “AI”.
After installing Windows Updates released on or after October 28, 2025 (KB5067036), you might encounter an issue where closing Task Manager using the Close (X) button does not fully terminate the process. When you reopen Task Manager, the previous instance continues running in the background even though no window is visible. This results in multiple lingering instances of taskmgr.exe, consuming system resources and potentially degrading device performance. Additional instances appear as “Task Manager” in the Processes tab and as “Taskmgr.exe” in the Details tab. Although the impact is less if Task Manager is opened and closed a few times, many instances accumulated over time can cause noticeable slowdowns in other applications.
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Well okay then.
Microsoft: What part of “Windows has jumped the shark” is unclear?
Vibe coding at Microsoft. Good lord.
Amateur hour…
To be fair the bugfest started well before the AI craze. They just don’t care anymore.
It’s hard to keep revenue up for operating system development when every competing operating system is free at the point of the user. Apple get away with free operating system updates by subsidising it from their hardware sales, and Linux relies of the generosity of corporations (for funded development) and volunteer developers.
Largely, operating systems are (despite being the largest value-add software in a computer system) deemed a “no cost” product. It’s nigh impossible to get the end user to buy an operating system upgrade these days, and a company, like microsoft, that relies on software sales rather than hardware, have to either cut development costs, and/or subsidise development from other product lines. Microsoft do still milk a lot of cash from volume licensing, but once that hardware is in the open (or was never sold bundled with a Windows license) getting the end user to pay for a new version is nigh impossible.
And that leads us to whereb Microsoft is with Vibe coding. Yes, they have tried to stimulaste hardware sales (and thus volume license sales) by deeming a lot of hardware obsolete/incompatible with the latest version, but they still need to cut costs. And the easiest way is to either make experienced developers more productive, or sack the expensive experienced developers and hire cheaper rookies. Both options imply AI use.
Microsoft needs to sunset Windows. If they are not making money selling what it is and they can’t “improve” it through new features without breaking it, then they are simultaneously beating a dead horse AND trying to get blood out of a stone.
*silently googles “how to hack ESU into Windows 10 until the end of 2028″*