14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has recently acknowledged a trio of new Windows 11 bugs, though this time, the company hasn’t enabled a new safeguard hold, which means that potentially affected devices would still get the new operating system once it becomes available.
Previously, whenever the software giant came across critical bugs impacting certain hardware configurations, it automatically suspended the rollout of Windows 11 for these computers until it came up with a fix to resolve the whole thing.
This doesn’t appear to be the case this time, as Microsoft still allows computers to still get Windows 11 despite the confirmed glitches.
The three known issues now hitting Windows 11 are the following:
- Installation of printers might fail when attempted over some network connections
- Custom printing properties might not be correctly provided to print server clients
- Installation of printers via Internet Printing Protocol (IPP) might not succeed
Windows 10 affected as well
One of the reasons Microsoft isn’t enabling an upgrade block for the affected computers is that all the aforementioned glitches also affect Windows 10 devices.
In the case of the installation of printers that could fail when working over network connections, Microsoft says it’s received reports of such problems over HTTPS connections.
“This issue has been observed in devices which access printers via a print server, using HTTP connections. When a client connects to the server to install the printer, a directory mismatch occurs, which causes the installer files to generate incorrectly. As a result, the drivers may not download,” the company says.
At this point, there’s no ETA as to when a fix could be released for devices out there, but most likely, Microsoft will address all three bugs with one of the next cumulative updates to launch either as optional later this month or automatically as part of the November 2021 Patch Tuesday rollout.