They f'd up 11 days since Microsoft f'd up
11
days since Microsoft f'd up

The last five

  1. Oct 13, 2026 October's update turned off the option to turn the security on 0.4 Vistas
  2. Sep 23, 2026 The "optional" update that un-licensed the Office you paid for 0.9 Vistas
  3. Sep 21, 2026 Apps you never asked for will now die on a schedule 0.3 Vistas
  4. Sep 8, 2026 The September Office update quietly broke copy and paste in Excel 0.5 Vistas
  5. Aug 17, 2026 GitHub spent a Monday being a very expensive read-only museum 0.6 Vistas
Total damage 105.1 Vistas accumulated, and counting Their best behavior 117 days straight without an entry, Feb 2022 to Jun 2022 The walkback rate 21% of the decisions and removals were later reversed Cleanup crew 68% of the things they broke, they eventually fixed. The rest are features now.

Worst years, measured in Vistas

2024
13.5 Vistas · 24 incidents 2025
10.8 Vistas · 17 incidents 2026
10.0 Vistas · 17 incidents 2023
8.8 Vistas · 17 incidents 2021
8.7 Vistas · 14 incidents

The scoreboard they actually care about

$524.51 ▼ 4.54 (0.86%) MSFT, Oct 23, 2026

The market has not yet priced in the next one.

The big chart

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0 25 50 75 100% 2025 2026 4.5% 4.3% $525 $423 76.4% 73.4% INCIDENTS 0.6 Flight Simulator 2024: the plane was fine, the runway was missing (2024, 0.6 Vistas) 0.5 The Thanksgiving eve outage that rerouted users thousands of miles (2024, 0.5 Vistas) 0.4 The holiday cloud gaming queue: three hours to maybe play (2024, 0.4 Vistas) 0.6 Australia paid 45 percent more for Office, sued, and won refunds (2024, 0.6 Vistas) 0.5 The AI is mandatory now, and so is the $3 (2025, 0.5 Vistas) 0.5 The February update made File Explorer think about it (2025, 0.5 Vistas) 0.5 Notepad, free since 1985, grew a subscription (2025, 0.5 Vistas) 0.7 Skype outlived its rivals, its reputation and, finally, Microsoft's patience (2025, 0.7 Vistas) 0.7 "An operating system wasn't found", said the operating system's update (2025, 0.7 Vistas) 0.5 May 2025: the Series X learns what $599.99 feels like (2025, 0.5 Vistas) 0.7 May's update wouldn't let some PCs start, so June had to fix it (2025, 0.7 Vistas) 0.3 The new Outlook is webmail wearing your grandfather's coat (2025, 0.3 Vistas) 0.6 Perfect Dark canceled, The Initiative closed, in the year of the handheld (2025, 0.6 Vistas) 0.5 Teams went down first, so nobody could complain about Outlook going down (2025, 0.5 Vistas) 0.9 The update that killed SSDs, and Microsoft's fix was to ask around (2025, 0.9 Vistas) 0.4 September: the other shoe, $150 total in five months (2025, 0.4 Vistas) 0.7 Game Pass Ultimate up fifty percent overnight, cut back within a year (2025, 0.7 Vistas) 0.5 Windows 11 25H2 shipped the day after Windows 10 died, bugs included (2025, 0.5 Vistas) 1.0 Windows 10 is done. The ransom note is $30. (2025, 1 Vistas) 1.1 One config change took down Xbox, Starbucks, Costco and an airline (2025, 1.1 Vistas) 0.7 The $30 lifeboat shipped with a hole in it (2025, 0.7 Vistas) 0.6 2026's first Patch Tuesday broke shutdowns, logins and Outlook at once (2026, 0.6 Vistas) 0.4 February's update refused to install and took drivers with it (2026, 0.4 Vistas) 0.6 The update that logged you out of everything, then blamed the internet (2026, 0.6 Vistas) 0.6 April's update broke the backup software, guarding your files from being saved (2026, 0.6 Vistas) 0.7 Day-one Call of Duty leaves the subscription sold on day-one games (2026, 0.7 Vistas) 0.5 Ten hours of "too many requests" for people who just wanted their email (2026, 0.5 Vistas) 0.4 May's update failed on machines with full disks, by design (2026, 0.4 Vistas) 0.2 The Recycle Bin forgot your file names, everywhere, at once (2026, 0.2 Vistas) 0.8 2026: the discless Series X costs $749.99 now, memory is expensive (2026, 0.8 Vistas) 0.4 July's patch overheated Dells until an emergency fix arrived (2026, 0.4 Vistas) 0.6 A maintenance window removed the network from the network (2026, 0.6 Vistas) 1.5 The outage that proved you don't own your disc games either (2026, 1.5 Vistas) 0.6 GitHub spent a Monday being a very expensive read-only museum (2026, 0.6 Vistas) 0.5 The September Office update quietly broke copy and paste in Excel (2026, 0.5 Vistas) 0.3 Apps you never asked for will now die on a schedule (2026, 0.3 Vistas) 0.9 The "optional" update that un-licensed the Office you paid for (2026, 0.9 Vistas) 0.4 October's update turned off the option to turn the security on (2026, 0.4 Vistas)

Last two years above. The full thing, with week, month and year zoom, lives on its own page.

The slowest revenge in history

4.54% Linux desktop market share, worldwide, Sep 2026
0% 1% 2% 3% 4% 5% 4.5% 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 worldwide desktops, monthly where known, approximate, from public StatCounter reporting

The year of Linux on the desktop: still pending. We check monthly.

Straight-line math on the current trend says Linux passes Windows around 2064 (April 2064). Mark your calendar. Pencil, not pen.

Best behavior counts the last five years only. Pre-2023 this site lists major incidents, so older gaps would look like good behavior nobody earned. Stock info from Yahoo Finance. Share numbers are approximations.