The holiday cloud gaming queue: three hours to maybe play
Xbox Cloud Gaming showed inflated multi-hour queues over the 2024 holidays
The Record
The Thanksgiving eve outage that rerouted users thousands of miles
November 2024 M365 outage hit Exchange, Teams and SharePoint before Thanksgiving
Flight Simulator 2024: the plane was fine, the runway was missing
Flight Simulator 2024 launch locked buyers in a multi-hour login queue
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
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
The DDoS defense joined the attack
July 30 2024 Azure/M365 outage amplified by an error in Microsoft's own DDoS defenses
Azure took a routine update and fell down a well
July 2024 Azure Central US outage knocked out Teams, DevOps, Xbox and Minecraft
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
2024 opened with a full week of Microsoft being unreachable
Late January 2024 M365 outages hit Teams and Outlook worldwide, twice
Russian spies got into Microsoft's exec mail with one weak password
Midnight Blizzard read Microsoft leadership email for weeks via a test tenant