[tomek@vz]

There's a colloquial saying in my country that goes "in every joke, there's a grain of joke." And the Windows community has been joking and laughing a lot lately. Not from joy, but rather as a coping mechanism caused by the current state of Windows as a platform and Microsoft as a company.
January 2026 has been rough so far, maybe one of the roughest starts to a year in recent history. We receive news of something breaking down daily. It's like an endless lowlight reel of bugs, crashes, server downtimes, and overall instability across all of the company's platforms and services.
The most prominent among the admittedly creative cracks at Microsoft is the one where people accuse it of using AI to generate its own code, or as kids like to say nowadays, vibecoding.
Bashing Microsoft and making memes about “vibecoded Windows” is amusing, as it perfectly blends two things many people aren’t exactly thrilled about: being told AI will replace them and dealing with Microsoft’s recent mishaps. Naturally, that’s the environment where the best comedy happens.
But after the initial laughs, you stop and think about whether the memes could actually be on to something. What if these aren’t just jokes, but an accidental mirror of how Microsoft operates and will continue to operate in the foreseeable future?
Let’s explore.

> I hate that Microsoft might be vibecoding Windows, but it's inevitable

The next feature update for Microsoft Edge is bringing an important change to those using the browser's built-in password manager. Over time, it grew to a very powerful tool with plenty of features, and it got to the point where Microsoft was willing to discontinue its standalone password manager and lock users into Microsoft Edge. Now, the company is making an important change to the password manager and its security.
Edge's built-in password manager lets you secure passwords and autofill with two security options: Windows Hello or a standalone password. The latter is now on its way out, as Microsoft decided to discontinue the primary password in favor of the device sign-in or Windows Hello.
Starting with Edge 146, users will no longer have the ability to create a custom primary password. However, the feature will remain available for existing users for a couple of additional months. On June 4, 2026, Microsoft will pull the plug for existing users and switch them to device authentication. Here is what the company says in the release notes for Edge 146, which is now available in the Beta Channel:

> Microsoft is removing a security feature from the Edge browser