Broke 0.7 Vistas Fixed officially acknowledged Nov 4, 2025 their #21 worst broke on record

The $30 lifeboat shipped with a hole in it

Windows 10 ESU enrollment failures hit right after end of support

↳ caused by KB5068781 (first ESU cumulative) ↗

The market's verdict: -2.1% on MSFT in the week after.

Status: Fixed. Working as intended, eventually.

What actually happened

Days after Windows 10 support ended, PCs that had paid for or claimed the Extended Security Update started wrongly announcing they were out of support anyway, and the enrollment wizard itself failed with "we can't enroll you right now". The first ESU-only cumulative update then failed to install with 0x800f0922 errors. It took a server-side rollback, an out-of-band update on November 11 and a servicing stack fix on November 18 to make the paid safety net actually catch anyone. The product was keeping an old OS secure; the beta test was on the customers who bought it.

This one is officially acknowledged.

Were you affected? Unbreak it

Enrollment fix KB5071959 ↗

Windows Update → Check for updates, or download KB 5071959 from catalog.update.microsoft.com.

They did it more than once

Before that: Windows 10 is done. The ransom note is $30. (Oct 2025)

They charged $30 for the lifeboat. The lifeboat leaked.

Timeline

Nov 4, 2025 Confirmed First reports came in.
Nov 18, 2025 Fixed Out-of-band and servicing stack fixes landed mid November.