Techspot reports on the latest updates to Windows 11 , which has a number of bugs affecting some users.

Problems include the sudden disappearance of the Taskbar, File Explorer crashes and degraded performance. In addition, some users experienced a failure to install (due to a failure to fully download the update).

Whilst almost all updates cause some loss of performance, it is unclear by how much the performance was reduced; past a certain point such downgrades are clearly intolerable.

Unlike free operating systems like Linux (Ubuntu and most other variants of Linux) and the tools that run on it, we pay for our Microsoft products, either directly or included in the price of our computers. I expect better quality in what is sometimes very expensive software. I have 6 machines running Ubuntu, and only 2 running Windows, but most of my problems are with Microsoft products. One thing that I strongly object to is paying Microsoft, when I buy a new computer with Windows pre-installed, when I then replace Windows with Linux.

How long will people tolerate such low quality software? Users are dependent on their computers for work, entertainment (games, music and videos), for online banking and online shopping, and anything which impacts these is a major inconvenience. Given that there are good alternatives to Microsoft products, I do not understand why more people aren't voting with their feet.

It is maybe time that users banded together to sue Microsoft for breach of contract.

Readers might also want to consider switching to Linux.