Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed something strange. My apps are freezing mid-scroll, features quietly breaking after updates or my phone just needs to be entirely shut down. The tools I rely on every day suddenly feel broken or need to be rebooted more often.
If you've noticed this too and if you've been paying attention to the news lately, you know exactly what I mean. Just days ago, a routine Windows 11 update broke the Remote Desktop feature for anyone using multiple monitors with different scaling, a bizarre UI glitch that resulted in overlapping text and hidden buttons. Worse, that same April update was linked to sudden boot loops on Dell and HP laptops.
Then there was the massive global Microsoft Outlook outage at the end of April. As millions of users were locked out of their emails, Microsoft pushed a fix, only to publicly admit a few hours later that the fix "did not appear to have provided the intended relief," and they were still trying to find the source of the errors.
I've also noticed that just before or after a major model update, chatbots go down. Earlier this week, Claude was down after some feature updates.
