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Microsoft confirms that a stack of bad Windows updates is causing boot issues

It's not just January's one.

Microsoft shifts focus to stabilizing Windows 11 after patch failures

Inside the company, engineering teams have been pulled into a "swarming" effort to stabilize Windows 11's core behavior – a shift that acknowledges how far the ...

Windows 11 appears to have a boot failure bug that's caused by an update failure bug, creating a circle of, err, bugs

Round and round we go.

Microsoft says the Windows 11 boot failure bug is linked to another buggy update: 'This issue can occur on devices that failed to install the December 2025 security up…

We previously reported on a bug that Microsoft said was creating a "limited number of reports" over a boot failure issue, in ...

Microsoft links Windows 11 boot failures to failed December 2025 update

Microsoft has linked recent reports of Windows 11 boot failures after installing the January 2026 updates to previously failed attempts to install the December 2025 security update, which left systems ...