It can be easy to dunk on Microsoft. It is the creator of the most popular operating system, Windows, yet it's constantly trying to push more AI onto its users, and this is before mentioning the less savoury parts of the company. So when it was revealed that WireGuard and VeraCrypt both had their developer accounts terminated, it was easy to place the blame on the company.
But a representative from Microsoft instead claims that it was merely a mistake on the developers' part by not checking emails. A classic blunder.
VeraCrypt is a free open-source disk encryption software, and it could be seen as an alternative to Microsoft's own BitLocker. That's why, when its developer announced the account had been terminated and claimed "Microsoft did not send me any emails or prior warnings", some on X believed the termination to be a conscious effort fr...
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