Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste

htrp

> "The paste operation might fail silently," according to Microsoft. > Excel 2016, 2019, 2021, and 2024 are affected. Microsoft said: "Although users try to paste content, the source remains selected and the destination is unmodified. When this issue occurs, users receive no indication of the failure, such as a beep or error message." How many people wrote lgtm on the security patch?

xvxvx

Aside from the audio issue, it feels like the remote access and pasting issues should have been discovered in QA. This constant slide in quality over the past few years has me looking to Linux as an option.

yukIttEft

There is not a single component in Windows that is not riddled with bugs, its infuriating. I wonder what exactly the "quality czar" is doing, maybe he needs a good PIP? https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/02/05/satya-nadell...

tylerchilds

Ty here from Sillyz.Computer pointing out once again, software authorship is and has always been political and not technical. AI inverted power structures to favor action over bureaucracy and software development is historically the definition of bureaucratic— dating back to IBM backing the Holocaust. The entire thing is just men LARPing as executives behind closed doors and kids vibing futures is forcing them to keep up while the mask of “the responsible computer adult” continues slipping.

taviso

A recent update broke the file history service for me, which I only discovered when I went to restore a previous version of a file. If you use it too, you should probably check it's actually working.

PowerElectronix

Sounds like Microsoft, yes.

everyone

MS is forcing everyone to vibe code right? Like they utterly fucked Minecraft with many baffling bugs fairly recently afaik.

tencentshill

They must have forgotten to prompt "bug-free and make no mistakes". It happens to the best of us.

bakugo

I keep hearing about how software development is a solved problem in the age of AI... and then reality hits, like we see here.

post_break

There's a massive RDP bug in the new update that is breaking stuff with no fix right now. Congrats Microsoft on the help desk ticket generation. (KB5124008)

dgarciaf18

Do they even have automated testing? This should have been detected not only in one layer of the release process, but in serveral ones.

_s_a_m_

Vibe coding?

throwaway85825

Will the last competent employee being laid off please turn out the light.

mococa

Let's pour more AI

fithisux

After the last update many things suddenly feel very sluggish like searching an app and starting it.

karp773

My favorite one was a few years ago when MS rolled out a Visual Studio with the login window broken. Literally, it was impossible to log in. I still cannot believe a company like Microsoft can fall so low.

jakzurr

I really wanted to spend more time reading the comments, but I've sworn off doom-scrolling.

pmontra

When they tell you that Linux has issues with suspend, reply that Windows has issues with paste /s

krater23

Windows users, welcome to the world of Linux! Now you don't need to have to install Linux to experience the Linux way of working.

charlieyu1

so just a regular day for Microsoft