India, Nov. 19 -- Cognitive warmup. Earlier this year, much to cheers from the shortsighted and unintelligent, Microsoft claimed that as much as 30% of the company's code is now written by AI. Fast forward and snapshot the months since, Windows 11 updates have been an absolute mess. The October update breaks the Windows Recovery Environment by preventing input from USB keyboard or mouse accessories. The August update caused hard drives to become inaccessible or data to be lost. The big 24H2 update had installation failures. Along the way, websites failing to load, random app crashes or freeze behaviour, and even Windows' inability to understand the "update and shut down" command have been noted as highlights. I've said this before, but pe...