October's update turned off the option to turn the security on
October 2026 update greys out Smart App Control's enable button
The Record
The "optional" update that un-licensed the Office you paid for
September 2026 update deactivated or removed perpetual Office 2016 and 2019
Apps you never asked for will now die on a schedule
Auto-installed Microsoft 365 companion apps retired after one year
The September Office update quietly broke copy and paste in Excel
September 2026 Office update broke pasting in Excel with silent failures
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
2026: the discless Series X costs $749.99 now, memory is expensive
Xbox raised console prices again worldwide in June 2026
The Recycle Bin forgot your file names, everywhere, at once
June 2026 bug showed internal $R filenames in Recycle Bin dialogs