Sorry Microsoft. Windows 10 is more stable than Windows 11, and your recent updates have made it obvious

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Sorry Microsoft. Windows 10 is more stable than Windows 11, and your recent updates have made it obvious

By Abhijith M B
Publication Date: 2026-09-24 23:22:00

We checked nine months of updates. Windows 10 barely broke a sweat. Windows 11 was sweating like anything

Windows 11 received its September update on the 8th of this month, and within days Microsoft had acknowledged or investigated problems involving Remote Desktop, USB audio, Linux and WSL-based apps like Claude Cowork, and enterprise domain issues. Windows Latest also found File History failures, Explorer.exe crashes, and AMD GPU instability, with an emergency update following on September 14 that still did not fix everything.

Windows 11 finally gets the vertical taskbar and smaller Start menu that were already present in Windows 10

This got us curious, and we looked back across the nine monthly updates released from January through September 2026 and, rather unsurprisingly, Windows 10 update history isn’t infected with nearly as many bugs as that of Windows 11.

Nine months of Windows 11 updates have produced a long list of issues and fixes

Starting in January, KB5074109 produced black screens, frozen Outlook Classic POP profiles, and broken Azure Virtual…

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