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
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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
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
The Anniversary Update celebrated by freezing everything
Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) froze systems minutes after boot
Microsoft patched a chip flaw and bricked the computer around it
January 2018 Meltdown/Spectre microcode updates made some AMD PCs unbootable