The Windows 98 demo where Plug and Play chose violence
Windows 98 crashed to a blue screen live on stage with Bill Gates at COMDEX
The tracker for all of Microsoft's mistakes.
12
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: They eventually fixed 68% of the things they broke. The rest are features now.
The Record
Three red lights, one billion dollars, no questions asked
Xbox 360 hardware failures acknowledged with a $1.05-1.15B charge and 3-year warranty
The servers that verify you paid decided you hadn't
Windows Genuine Advantage outage flagged licensed Windows as pirated
Windows Home Server: the safe place for your files, terms and conditions apply
Windows Home Server could silently corrupt files edited directly on the server
Xbox Live went down for the holidays; the apology was one arcade game
Xbox Live suffered intermittent outages through the December 2007 holidays
Zune 30: the leap year ended it, the new year fixed it
Every 30GB Zune froze on December 31, 2008, a leap-year clock bug
The cloud's fine print, demonstrated live on 800,000 phones
Sidekick outage at Microsoft's Danger unit threatened all user data
Windows Phone's first update updated some phones into bricks
Windows Phone 7 February 2011 update bricked some Samsung handsets
Microsoft Security Essentials protected you from Google Chrome
MSE definition update flagged Google Chrome as Zbot and removed it
The free Surface RT update that cost some owners their tablet
Windows RT 8.1 update left some Surface RTs unbootable