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Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

#81

lol, Microslop shooting themselves in the foot once again. At this point people will move to MacOS or Linux because so much damage to their brand can’t simply be ignored anymore.

People: Windows is too centralized. Let's move to MacOS.

Don't know who those people are or if they exist, but not the brightest ones for sure.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Crying wolf" constantly like this is so frustrating. It waters down the message until they send something you really need to worry about, which you ignore like the rest of the pointless messages.

What marketing/sales/HR types don’t seem to understand is that when everything is the highest priority, nothing is.

I saw someone had an idea to have a ticket system where the user chose the priority, and it displaced the current ticket at that priority, with the catch being that this ticket was sent back to the user with "are you sure?"

CEO can't login during a demo. Sandra from accounting can't print from the closest printer and confirmed this is higher priority

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

#83

Microsoft loves sending emails with "Action required" in the subject, when actually no action is required, or it doesn't apply to you, or whatever. Such corporate speak. It's fun searching your email for "Action required" and finding all the things you were supposed to do and it turns out didn't need to do anything about.

My spam folder is full of "Action Required" emails. So many of them are phishing attempts that I would never even open such an email even if it really truly came from Microsoft.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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post #27

lol, Microslop shooting themselves in the foot once again. At this point people will move to MacOS or Linux because so much damage to their brand can’t simply be ignored anymore.

Apple has done the exact same with its iphone app store, lots of companies got shut down because of their app not beeing available anymore with no explanation. The problem is with exclusive app stores.

I don't often praise Apple, but their kernel hardening on macOS has been in the form of a deliberate, decades-long plan to move kernel extensions to userspace by providing the appropriate SDKs. Meanwhile Microsoft is running around like a headless chicken.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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Owwwwww...... :D I've no idea whether MS either has a veeeeery clever plan about what they are doing, and I just don't get it, or whether that's just completely stupid in the current times when Windows' fanbase is somewhat declining anyways. On the other hand, people always have a hard time understanding the trouble they order when they let things centralize too much. When they are too okay with depending on e.g. Big…

I spent 20 minutes trying to log in to Teams on my phone today and I just couldn’t. After my username and password, it would redirect to Microsoft Authenticator, then ask me to create a passkey for some reason, show a loader, and then bug out and restart the flow in an infinite loop.

I’m being told we are in the incredible age of fully automated AI programming and yet Microsoft can’t even get login to work.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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post #69

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The Neo changes things. Only $600.

It is 800 euros for 8 GB device, no thanks, especially in coutries where many dream of getting 1000 euros a month.

Dozens of youtube video reviews showing that the 8GB is not really a limitation for what most people need to do with the laptop. Heck I saw a review where the guy played minecraft on it with 20 rather hefty tabs in safari open, without any stuttering.

So what is the actual limitation of a neo, and how to they apply to users in that price class?

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

#87

I'm amused by this saga. Wireguard is working just fine on my machines (Linux and Mac). Apparently nobody at Microsoft considered that blocking critical software hurts Microsoft more than the open source developers being blocked.

No one considers anything in these tech companies. It’s all some bot automatically banning people who are then faced with a brick wall looking for a contact to get unbanned.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

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post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Neo changes things. Only $600.

It is 800 euros for 8 GB device, no thanks, especially in coutries where many dream of getting 1000 euros a month.

Maybe you don't need a laptop then, if your dream is 1000eur.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

#89

Microsoft loves sending emails with "Action required" in the subject, when actually no action is required, or it doesn't apply to you, or whatever. Such corporate speak. It's fun searching your email for "Action required" and finding all the things you were supposed to do and it turns out didn't need to do anything about.

I once filed a support ticket against one of those emails because I couldn't figure out what they were telling us to do.

Even MS's staff couldn't figure out what resources the "Action Required" email had to do with.

Re: Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects

#90

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/microsoft_dev_account... Microsoft response at the end of that article.

> I was ready to login to the Partner Portal and submit my...

I used to work for companies that were Microsoft Partners. One of Microsoft's rules was that they required Partners to employ one (or more) developers that have some Microsoft certification. As an MSCD, I met those requirements (for silver and gold levels). That cert is no longer offered, so I wonder if some exception/rule got removed and now all the partners without "certified" developers got kicked to the curb?

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