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Microsoft disabled the developer's certificate so no windows releases can be made.

As someone who is just planning to publish signed desktop software for Windows, this is deeply worrying. What reasons could there be for cancelling a certificate, especially when it has been used for years and the identity is already established?

Are there some ways to combat such decisions legally?

This is a concern and risk that has realised itself multiple times over the past decades. There have been multiple stories linked to multiple developers in the past.

If you publish to any closed platform including ios, mac, win, android, this is the risk you run and a condition of operating you will need to accept.

They need to get some tech site like Arstechnica to write about it, like they did when neocities couldn't get ahold of bing. The only way to contact these tech companies to speak to a real human being and not a chatbot is if you know somebody who works there or if the media writes about it.
Looks like Linux and some of the BSDs are the only remaining truly open OSes.
We need a better way to sign and verify software. Clearly companies like Microsoft and Apple have not been good for the open source communities and are inhibiting innovation.