Russian spies got into Microsoft's exec mail with one weak password
Midnight Blizzard read Microsoft leadership email for weeks via a test tenant
The Record
2024 opened with a full week of Microsoft being unreachable
Late January 2024 M365 outages hit Teams and Outlook worldwide, twice
Patch Tuesday locked people out of their own PCs, 48 digits at a time
July 2024 updates triggered BitLocker recovery screens at boot for many users
Azure took a routine update and fell down a well
July 2024 Azure Central US outage knocked out Teams, DevOps, Xbox and Minecraft
The DDoS defense joined the attack
July 30 2024 Azure/M365 outage amplified by an error in Microsoft's own DDoS defenses
Microsoft spent two years on a patch that locked Linux users out of their PCs
August 2024 Secure Boot SBAT update broke Linux dual-boot machines
Windows 11 24H2: the update that spent months protecting users from itself
Windows 11 24H2 rollout blocked by compatibility holds, BSODs and an 8.63GB phantom cache
Flight Simulator 2024: the plane was fine, the runway was missing
Flight Simulator 2024 launch locked buyers in a multi-hour login queue
The Thanksgiving eve outage that rerouted users thousands of miles
November 2024 M365 outage hit Exchange, Teams and SharePoint before Thanksgiving
The holiday cloud gaming queue: three hours to maybe play
Xbox Cloud Gaming showed inflated multi-hour queues over the 2024 holidays