The September Office update quietly broke copy and paste in Excel
September 2026 Office update broke pasting in Excel with silent failures
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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
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
The update that logged you out of everything, then blamed the internet
March 2026 update broke Microsoft account sign-ins across apps
2026's first Patch Tuesday broke shutdowns, logins and Outlook at once
January 2026 update caused black screens, boot failures and Outlook crashes
The $30 lifeboat shipped with a hole in it
Windows 10 ESU enrollment failures hit right after end of support
One config change took down Xbox, Starbucks, Costco and an airline
October 2025 Azure Front Door DNS failure knocked out Microsoft and half the internet