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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

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Post by type0 »

Gigachad wrote: post #85
pino83 wrote: post #68

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.

> fully automated AI programming

they would like you to use copilot, so it all checks out, have you installed it on your phone yet? /s

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

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Post by zarzavat »

pjmlp wrote: post #74
tock wrote: 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.

It's a computer released at the peak of the RAM crisis. Even Raspberry Pis are expensive now. That's just life.

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

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Post by petterroea »

dontdoxxme wrote: post #29

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.

Same with GCP. I have Private test account with nothing on it. I get emails about actions being required regarding APIs I have never used, a few times per year.

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

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Post by fodkodrasz »

patates wrote: post #30
rixthefox wrote: post #23

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.

Writing this from a corporate win11 computer, the whole thing is so laggy, it's unbelievable. Last year, I had revived my old desktop from 2007 with an intel Q6600, windows xp and a clicky dying HDD, and that thing flied compared to this. Dear Microsoft and its partners (Especially DELL!), what the hell happened?!

Corporate Windows == CrowdStrike, Sentinel One, or other US Government in disguise Malware.

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

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Post by bandrami »

Hendrikto wrote: post #65
golfer wrote: 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.

Early on in my career my manager told me "a monitoring system that sends more than a dozen notifications a day actually sends zero notifications". Words to live by.

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

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Post by type0 »

Tangurena2 wrote: post #90
ectospheno wrote: post #73

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 partn…

> all the partners without "certified" developers got kicked to the curb?

developers, developers; nah- AI, AI ...

when Copilot is certified, you'll be fine

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

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Post by Asmod4n »

rixthefox wrote: post #23

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.

Have gone back to Linux after 23 years, Ive only had to go to the console once to make all hardware of my framework 12 work since i chose to use a non supported distro. That's definitely a breath of fresh air compared to the old times, where getting wifi to work was a major hassle, anyone remember ndiswrapper? ouch.

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

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Post by coldpie »

palata wrote: post #38
tacker2000 wrote: post #16

In the tech world, security is mostly just a theater , it is used to push though unwanted and unpopular things, like access control, privacy invasion, etc... All this signing business, leads to one party having the final say, and guess what, they are going to abuse that power...

I think it's just like in software in general: most software is bad, but it doesn't mean that all software is bad and unnecessary. Most security is done badly, but it doesn't mean that security is unnecessary. But I agree: TooBigTech has TooMuchPower.

> But I agree: TooBigTech has TooMuchPower.

Passkeys are here to improve your login security! All you have to do is give complete control over your ability to log in to a service to one of three American big tech companies. Yay!

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

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Post by neya »

dontdoxxme wrote: post #29

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 unfortunately took part in their startup program. I was awarded the credits. However, I noticed that everything was super pricey, especially the AI services and the azure interface is basically garbage. It is very easy for you to enable a service and never be able to find it later until you have been billed for it later in the month. Maybe the GCP interface has spoilt me too much.

Long story short: I discontinued their program and it's been 2 years and I still receive those action required emails only to find out that there is absolutely no action required on my side. Harassing users is their favorite past time I swear. Ask the Github desktop folks. On Mac OS, there is no option to disable automatic updates. It loves installing a helper that runs 24/7 with admin privileges. If you click on deny, it will keep harassing you - every. single. day. First thing in the morning - 3 times, 3 times in the evening. You could be in the middle of something important, like a meeting or a screen share or running some serious stuff like CNC milling (which I do) and this thing will just popup and ask you for admin privileges until you accept.

And even if you accept and give it permissions, it just buys you a few days time. People have tried before to open an issue on Github - their response was simply "This isn't a priority for us right now" and they just closed the issue.

Same story with Windows too. I wish there was a law to prevent this kind of bullying behaviour.

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

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Post by vaylian »

croes wrote: post #52
palata wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> At this point people will move to I think most people just don't care about their computer. Most people just use whatever they are told to use at work.

Most people are just accustomed to pain because they don’t know it could be different

This. Most people will think that using a different system will just be a different type of pain.
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