Had a fun one on a school managed laptop when I went back to school a couple of years ago. Windows got a broken driver release for one of the Realtek audio chipsets added to their driver repository, and literally every one of the laptops pulled down this updated driver and lost all ability to output sound. School’s IT (I had a couple of friends working on their IT at this time) had a heck of a time trying to get it set to roll back and pin the driver on every impacted computer, and when I most recently reinstalled Windows following graduation and gaining ownership of this laptop I had to re-apply this workaround because Microsoft still hadn’t changed the driver version in their repository over a year later

To be entirely fair, some portion of the fault probably lies with Realtek, and this could’ve been avoided by selecting a device with a better audio chipset, but the point still stands that the default state is still slightly very broken