Microsoft Locked Out VeraCrypt, WireGuard, and Windscribe from Pushing Windows Updates
A mandatory verification requirement Microsoft introduced in October took them out.
Submitted 7 hours ago by other_cat@piefed.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
https://itsfoss.com/news/microsoft-locks-out-open-source-developers/
Microsoft Locked Out VeraCrypt, WireGuard, and Windscribe from Pushing Windows Updates
A mandatory verification requirement Microsoft introduced in October took them out.
Microslop sabotaging privacy!? never did i expect them to do something so dastardly.
Microslop, who bundle their OS with a competing encryption product that probably has government backdoors, “accidentally” shutting out open source encryption software. Nothing to see here. Perfectly legitimate business behavior.
Big Teach = Weapons contractor… which also means digital slave tracker
Not at all anticompetitive. Because, uhh, reasons?
v0rld@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Is it just me or is the headline misleading and wrong? Why would WireGuard, VeraCrypt or Windscribe push windows updates in the first place? If you read the actual text it says Microsoft locked out the accounts these 3 projects used to publish new versions of their software.
TheSambassador@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
They’re probably using “Windows updates” to mean “updates to their software on Windows” but it’s obviously confusing.