Reddit user “DeadMan3000” warned owners of Gigabyte motherboards to verify that they have not mistakenly set the date past January 18, 3001, especially if they intend to install the Windows 10 November 2019 update on their systems.
In fact, it could “crash on first boot,” said DeadMan3000. Users cannot resolve this bug even if they try to change the date from the BIOS. The only solution is to reinstall the operating system from scratch.
A new Windows 10 bug: Microsoft is 980 years old to fix it
Youtuber Carey Holzman has shown that the bug affects Gigabyte motherboards with Intel and AMD chipsets. The positive note is that it is unlikely that the system will automatically set a date after January 18, 3001, so there should be no problem for users.
It is easy to make typos when entering dates, however, no one should have to deal with startup problems for such a trivial reason. Fortunately, Microsoft and Gigabyte have 980 years and 10 months to resolve this problem before it is really of concern.
More frustrating than the bug in question, however, the errors caused by Leap Day, which occurred on Saturday. It appears that some systems were not ready by February 29, 2020.
Matt Johnson-Pint, computer engineer at Microsoft, collects some of these bugs on his blog. Problems are widespread, and many of them are still unresolved, so they have higher priority than the aforementioned date problem 3001.
It seems to be the year of “calendar” bugs. What do you think about it?
It should be noted that the American company continues the work of modernization of its OS. After starting the deployment of new icons for its applications, Microsoft is preparing a new interface for the Windows 10 Start menu.
The menu interface, which also plays on transparency effects, will also highlight new application icons whose deployment has started with certain users in recent days.