WireGuard VPN developer's Microsoft account locked
twitter.comFrom the VeraCrypt discussion (1109 points, 16 hours ago, 412 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47686549
Comment (with 134 replies): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47687884
Microsoft VP comments on this: https://x.com/shanselman/status/2041977121686585396?s=46
What a distasteful response. People are not `dumping on` microsoft. What kind of PR is this?
Interesting, but disingenuous
The VP says: "but sometimes it's just check emails and verify your accounts. "
From the Techcrunch article:
I think Microsoft systems are intermittently failing, it is the simplest explanation“Microsoft never sent me any notification at all about this. I’ve looked in every inbox in every spam folder in every mail log, and zero, nothing, zilch,” Donenfeld said.Yesterday I couldn't get a download link for the Windows install media creation tool for a solid hour due to errors at their CDN(?). I have a friend in IT who tells me "degraded availability" across their many services is a daily thing.
The solution, clearly, is even more layoffs.
well, there was this, a while back: "experiencing a critical and recurring email delivery issue affecting recipients at outlook.com, live.com, hotmail.com, and msn.com"
"Emails to Outlook.com rejected due to a fault or overzealous blocking rules"
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/04/users_fume_at_outlook...
discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246044
Microslop at its best.
So, he hadn't logged in for 4 years...? Or didn't push an update for 4 years? You guys are really taking this at face value?