{"id":287634,"date":"2018-11-30T10:08:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T08:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=287634"},"modified":"2018-11-30T10:09:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-30T08:09:18","slug":"microsoft-has-a-huge-problem-with-bugs-in-its-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/287634-microsoft-has-a-huge-problem-with-bugs-in-its-software.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft has a &#8220;huge problem&#8221; with bugs in its software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Softpedia News editor Bogdan Popa has spoken out against how Microsoft manages critical bugs in its software.<\/p>\n<p>In an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/microsoft-has-a-huge-problem-dealing-with-critical-bugs-in-its-software-524055.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editorial piece<\/a><\/strong>, Popa outlines how he tried to report bugs to Microsoft regarding their launcher software.<\/p>\n<p>Using a series of tweets as evidence, Popa shows how Microsoft continually ignored his questions &#8211; forcing him to eventually remove Microsoft Launcher.<\/p>\n<p>The issue in question was regarding the deletion of Popa&#8217;s Sticky Notes, which happened across devices thanks to their being synced.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know this is the risk of running beta software, but handling feedback so poorly not only creates more frustration among your testers, but could also leave critical issues unfixed,&#8221; said Popa.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft has recently suffered a string of <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/278753-warning-dont-download-the-latest-windows-10-update.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>issues<\/strong><\/a> with its latest Windows 10 update, with many users losing data due to its implementation.<\/p>\n<p>A number of problems with the operating system have led to Microsoft\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/284636-microsoft-promises-to-improve-windows-10-quality.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>promising to improve the quality<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of updates delivered to Windows 10.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/287252-the-alternatives-to-windows-10-if-you-are-tired-of-broken-updates.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The alternatives to Windows 10 if you are tired of broken updates<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and its Windows 10 OS has come under severe criticism for being buggy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[123,55942,55944],"class_list":["post-287634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-microsoft","tag-microsoft-launcher","tag-sticky-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287634"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287664,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287634\/revisions\/287664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}