ME:: We all make sh*tty software as Dave Winer has said so many times! Including Microsoft and Samsung! ; Thom Holwerda:: Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews via Mike Hoye
Discovered: Sep 19, 2025 14:58 (UTC)ME:: We all make sh*tty software as Dave Winer has said so many times! Including Microsoft and Samsung! ; Thom Holwerda:: Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews via Mike Hoye
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This tragedy of dark patterns then neatly cascaded into a catastrophic comedy of bugs, where a full root drive apparently corrupts online Microsoft accounts on Windows 11 so hard they become essentially unrecoverable. There were no warnings and no informational popups. Ominous user accounts started to appear on the login screen. Weird suggestions to use corporate-looking security USB keys pop up. Windows wrongfully tells my wife the PIN code and password she enters are incorrect. The suggestion to change the password or PIN code breaks completely. All the well-known rescue options any average user would turn to in WinRE throw up cryptic errors.