# WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account

I should be surprised if Windows will ever be suitable outside niche hobbyist communities with this kind of unreliable behaviour.

Real users need consistency and stability.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/wireguard-vpn-developer-cant-ship-software-updates-after-microsoft-locks-account/

WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account | TechCrunch

The popular open source VPN maker is the second high-profile developer to say Microsoft locked his account without notifying him and are blocking their ability to send software updates to users.

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@neil I still can't get over the way MS has just lost their everloving minds lately. Don't get me wrong, they've always had horrible business practices and been more than just a bit evil, but at least they had a small veneer of a pretense and generally tried at least to pretend... Now they're just straight up pivoting to that sort of dystopian nightmare corporation that belongs as the villain in stories, not as a thing to exist in real life...)

I seriously can't understand why it's so hard to get people to stop using Microsoft products — especially Windows. And I say that as someone who is a gamer and has been on Microsoft operating systems and a number of their products since my first computer a long long time ago.