Reports are coming in of PCs saying they are offline, when in actual fact the computer’s internet is working fine.
Windows 10 May 2020 Update has another problem that Microsoft has acknowledged, this time with internet connectivity flaking out for some users.
This is a slightly odd bug (that we’ve seen before – more on that later) in that Windows 10 is showing that there’s no internet connection in the taskbar icon, when in actual fact there is a perfectly valid connection for the PC – and users can still go online.
The problem is compounded, though, because some apps go off the operating system reporting that there’s no connection, and therefore are left high and dry thinking they’re offline.
In short, while affected users may be able to fire up a web browser and happily go about their normal daily surfing, some apps like Cortana, Microsoft 365, OneDrive or the Microsoft Store go by the operating system’s reported online or offline status, and so will see the PC as offline. This isn’t just Microsoft apps either, with the likes of Spotify also reportedly failing to work for users hit by the bug.
There are various online reports of this problem and its ramifications, and Windows Latest, which picked up on this issue, confirms that it has experienced the internet connection bug first-hand.
