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Technically the numerical code still gives you a precise search key to find other people discussing the same issue.

... You know, as would be useful for a serious operating system where online support doesn't mean trawling the bowels of Reddit praying somebody's had the same issue and found a reproducible solution.

For what it's worth, only one of my two systems is experiencing this issue.

The one with the issue is running windows 11, and the working system is running Linux.

Priceless.

Then your IT has blocked use of the terminal and store for your account.
Which makes sense for regular users to reduce the chance of fuck-ups and rise of a shadow IT.
This isn't a Microsoft issue (except for the slightly unspecific error message).

At this point I'm not even sure this truly is sarcasm

Your OS provides a GUI? fancy

From a non-technical user's pov kinda true.

But not true at all when you enumerate the actual responsibilities of an OS.

The OS shouldn't even do that. That's the job of the display manager and desktop environment

Can confirm this is an actual issue from Microsoft impacting lots of normal system apps that update via the Microsoft Store and/or Windows Update.

I’ve seen it mess up Notepad, Snipping Tool to name a few.

It’s pretty egregious that a bug like this can mess up utilities already installed on your computer.

Windows is really feeling like a single-player video game that requires an always on connection.

Source: I’m an IT professional who has been helping people with this since yesterday.

More source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/5729246/how-to-fix-error-code-0x803f8001

We use Windows 11 at work. One of the desktops has an error where you can log in but windows displays a notification to the effect of "You're not logged in, your settings and app preference aren't available."

Other than Edge most of the built in programs don't work. No errors, no notifications -- clicking the icon to open them does nothing. Notepad, file explorer, etc.

Command prompt is slowly becoming legacy. Microsoft wants powershell to be its successor thus Terminal was born.

I maintain over a hundred windows 11 machines. I recently push new software that I had to manually configure on each machine. While doing this I checked for problems. Over half had terminal and other programs like notepad installed separately. All the machines are in a domain environment but windows 11 ignores many of the GPO's I have in place. Its pathetic and just a reason to have to do more work. So I have no problem believing that terminal had been installed and then disabled due to some microsoft account nonsense.

I think they just borked some store check code somewhere.

The fact that this is even possible just demonstrates how broken Windows is fundamentally.

Microsoft: “Let’s fire our QA teams. We’ll force our dev team to use AI in coding. Then we’ll have the public test it.”
Also Microsoft:

don't use the windows store, when not required you can never know what else they package into your apps. google and amazon's android app stores do this, the latter is even open about adding tracking libs to apps