Users running the latest versions of Windows 11 are losing some Microsoft apps after running System Restore.

The bug affects Windows applications that use the MSIX app package format running on Windows 11 version 22H2, according to a Redmond advisory. The MSIX packaging format was introduced in 2018 in Windows 10 as a way to make it easier to update systems like MSI and ClickOnce, but not in this case.

Users are seeing problems trying to run Office apps post-restoration, as well as Notepad, Paint, Cortana, and Terminal, a terminal emulator for those who use command-line tools and such shells as Command Prompt, PowerShell, and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).

[theregister.com...]

Some of us depend on these tools. We also depend on System Restore! Proceed with caution.