d3Xt3r a day ago

Windows keeps becoming more and more worse and bloated every month. This month's update bumped up the install.wim by 400MB! And last month's update added a similar amount of bulk. It's insane how much junk Microsoft keeps adding to the OS, whilst breaking core functionality.

  • rurban 5 hours ago

    Even worse than macOS, which also became almost unusable over the last years.

  • pjmlp a day ago

    Agreed, yet I don't see people rushing out to buy GNU/Linux powered laptops at Media Markt, because there aren't any.

  • ronsor a day ago

    Every time they add new things to the OS, the old functionality is crushed under the weight of the new.

dehugger a day ago

I'm shocked there's not more traction on this post. Breaking localhost is almost unthinkable to me. Of all the things network unit testing should cover, that's pretty close to the top.

  • sidewndr46 8 hours ago

    I imagine Microsoft expects everything to be done in the cloud using AI, so localhost is considered deprecated now.

  • nebula8804 9 hours ago

    They probably have ChatGPT running their test suite or some nonsense like that now.

  • eddie_catflap a day ago

    Same. The incident calls I'm on this morning agree too

WarOnPrivacy a day ago

Link at bottom has some results about sudden, recent localhost failures

    working for several years, today localhost not found
    after GUI reboot attempt

    localhost and 127.0.0.1 should be the same, 
    it seems strange they shows different results.

    wusa /uninstall /kb:5066835 (restart)
    wusa /uninstall /kb:5066131 (restart)
    wusa /uninstall /kb:5065789 (restart)
ref: https://kagi.com/search?q=windows+localhost+not+working&dr=2...
rappatic 4 hours ago

How does an operating system even function without localhost? This is absurd I can't believe this was caught by even a single one of the 5,000 devs working on Windows.

usui a day ago

I'm more interested in how this update causes the issue. What is the mechanism?

sebbu 21 hours ago

It seems like it only concerns IIS (and/or SChannel), and only for HTTP/2 (and maybe 3?). I use apache and openssl and doesn't have any issue.