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Not sure what this has to do with Microsoft… did they exert influence to get the change accepted or something?
> Microsoft is notable for dubious quality control standards regarding releases of its flagship operating system, Windows. That one of its engineers should drop some dodgy code into the Linux kernel is not hugely surprising

The Register has been going crazy with the editorializing lately. Is this even true? I hate Windows as much as anyone, but the OS itself doesn’t feel particularly buggy or untested these days. (It’s the programs you install that provide that element.)

Lately? This has been The Reg’s style for their entire existence. They don’t do dispassionate neutral reporting.
Most of the Windows 8 and later bullshit feel very Alpha and Beta, unlike the Omega that was Windows 7 and prior.

The most obvious is the nouveau context menu in Windows 11. That literal dumpster shit in 23H2 still doesn't work as well as the real context menu: Doesn't highlight the icon/object upon opening, occasionally acts like an independent window unto itself, and other "clearly has not been dogfooded" behaviour.

Do you use Windows? Every other update fries the OS or doesn't install
Click baity title, why bitch about Microsoft?
Based on the other comments here, a better title might be "Unvetted code change triaged in Linux 6.13". Not as sexy, but accurate?
> However, the processes that allowed it to remain in the build this close to public release will be a concern.