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CountMike said:

It's all over the place, even 2 same systems may behave differently.

Polite way of saying it is consistently inconsistent.

CountMike said:

It's all over the place, even 2 same systems may behave differently.

Very true, it doesn't take much or very long to make 2 supposedly identical systems work differently. I saw it with 2 new Desktops purchased same time same vendor same ship date for our local animal shelter a couple years ago.

f14tomcat said:

Polite way of saying it is consistently inconsistent.

The Variable Constant raises it's ugly head!

slicendice said:

Alright, that might have come out a bit wrong. As a software developer myself, I know there exist no such thing as completely bug-free code.

What I meant to say is that known issues should be resolved before release.

Completely bug free coding does exist but only in very simple systems - pseudo code example follows

print the square of a numbers from 1 to 10.

For i = 1 to 10
print i, i*i
next i

It is the moment you start adding conditionals, things start to fall apart

print square of numbers from 1 to 5, cubes from 6 to 10.

For i=1 to 10
If i <5 print i, i*i
if i >5 print i, i*i*i
next i

Ok a trivial example but the eagle eyed will see the obvious mistake here. 5 squared will not be printed.

Compound this by millions of lines of coding, and it is impossible to test every pathway through the code. Indeed, sometimes coding gets stranded or executed erroneously.

The code base is just so big now. Its no wonder things get messed up. Some would say bloated. I do think there are some things that should be optional that are installed with no choice in the matter. And you shouldn't have to use power shell to uninstall some of those default Apps either. I don't get why the uninstall option is greyed out for things that have no impact on the OS as a whole. Actually I do get it, its likely due to $ revenue for adds etc in the "free" Apps.
And I also think there may be to many cooks. With all the baggage Windows now has how do you keep track of who codes what? And all the interdependence's? I kind of think its only going to get worse not better. Especially at this twice yearly release schedule.