The Record · every incident, filterable

Jan 22, 2021

Decided 0.3 Vistas Walked back officially acknowledged

The 24-hour price hike: a masterclass in market research

Xbox Live Gold price increase announced and cancelled within a day

Mar 2, 2021

Broke 1.5 Vistas Mitigated officially acknowledged

HAFNIUM chained four Exchange zero-days, breaching some 30,000 organizations

Mar 9, 2021

Broke 0.7 Vistas Fixed officially acknowledged

KB5000802 caused APC_INDEX_MISMATCH bluescreens when printing with Type 3 drivers

Mar 15, 2021

Broke 0.5 Vistas Fixed well documented

March 2021 Azure AD outage blocked sign-ins to Teams, Xbox Live and Office

Mar 31, 2021

Killed 0.4 Vistas Stood by it officially acknowledged

Cortana mobile apps shut down globally on March 31, 2021

Apr 13, 2021

Broke 0.4 Vistas Confirmed well documented

KB5001330 dropped game frame rates and broke NVIDIA driver installs

May 18, 2021

Killed 0.5 Vistas Stood by it officially acknowledged

Microsoft cancelled Windows 10X before it ever shipped

Jun 8, 2021

Broke 0.7 Vistas Fixed well documented

June 2021 updates broke network printing with error 0x0000011b, twice

Jun 24, 2021

Decided 0.6 Vistas Stood by it officially acknowledged

Windows 11 requires TPM 2.0 and recent CPUs, cutting off millions of PCs

Jul 1, 2021

Broke 1.0 Vistas Mitigated officially acknowledged

Print Spooler RCE exposed every Windows machine; patches kept getting bypassed