October's update turned off the option to turn the security on
October 2026 update greys out Smart App Control's enable button
The tracker for all of Microsoft's mistakes.
11
days since Microsoft f'd up
161
incidents on record
76
things they broke
56
decisions they made
29
things they killed
21%
of decisions walked back
By the numbers: 21% of their decisions and removals got walked back.
The Record
The "optional" update that un-licensed the Office you paid for
September 2026 update deactivated or removed perpetual Office 2016 and 2019
The September Office update quietly broke copy and paste in Excel
September 2026 Office update broke pasting in Excel with silent failures
GitHub spent a Monday being a very expensive read-only museum
August 2026 GitHub outage broke Actions, PRs and half of all downloads
The outage that proved you don't own your disc games either
July 2026 Xbox outage blocked sign-ins and even disc game launches for ~17 hours
A maintenance window removed the network from the network
July 2026 outage took Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive down for eleven hours
July's patch overheated Dells until an emergency fix arrived
July 2026 update clashed with Intel drivers, overheating some Dell PCs
The Recycle Bin forgot your file names, everywhere, at once
June 2026 bug showed internal $R filenames in Recycle Bin dialogs
May's update failed on machines with full disks, by design
May 2026 update failed to install on PCs with nearly full EFI partitions
Ten hours of "too many requests" for people who just wanted their email
April 2026 Outlook.com outage logged users out and blocked sign-ins