The VP says: "but sometimes it's just check emails and verify your accounts. "
From the Techcrunch article:
“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.
I think Microsoft systems are intermittently failing, it is the simplest explanation
From 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 explanationSo, 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?
Also: https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/wireguard-vpn-developer-ca...