Is this is the same Microsoft that wants EU to give github developers a lot of money to fund open source projects?

The user said Microsoft reached out 10 days later, asking them to fill out a recovery form and promising to help them "every step of the way," but they haven't heard from the company since.

More like nevery step of the way, am I right?

Fuck Microsoft

Google deleted a guys entire account for having pictures of his own son in the pool. Google also deleted a colleague's master thesis because he allegedly had a pirated book in his Google Drive - he owned the book, we have local stores that sell .epubs.

Now Microsoft deleted a LibreOffice's developer account.

Do you know what all of these examples have in common? Appealing doesn't work, "your" files were never yours if you give up control to a corporation, US big tech can't be trusted.

You don't have to go fully libre software (though maybe you should!) but at the very least use software that isn't taking your content hostage: have local copies, only accept local copies that are automated and using open formats.

As much as I'd love hating on Microsoft, I think this gross incompetence & shitty bureaucracy over malice from Microsoft. Kaginski was locked out of his account & Microsoft made it annoyingly difficult to recover. This is something I have also faced using Microsoft's enterprise products, something we pay a lot of money for.

The bane of my existence is visiting Microsoft community posts, where "MVPs" advertise their years of experience before suggesting the most banal advice ever.

On the 17th of last month, Reddit user u/deus03690 shared how Microsoft locked their account, which, among other things, contained 30 years of "irreplaceable photos and work" on OneDrive.

Who the Fuck is so stupid to store important information online without an offline backup?

Use !codeberg@programming.dev instead!

Oh, MS gave them a seal of approval and blessings to go get cred with the hacker anti establishment crowd?

How generous of them!

I don't use onedirve or google drive. The cloud is wack.

I know that saying this here is preaching to the choir, but don’t use Microsoft or Google products. None of them. They can and will take things from you. They cannot be trusted.

Microsoft and anticompetitiveness, an iconic duo

This is his blog article. https://mikekaganski.wordpress.com/2025/07/25/microsoft-anybody-home/

Looking at this, it looks more like Microsoft just screwed it's auth system in some way for him then intentionally banned him in particular.

I as an IT guy have seen this before SOHO office accounts as well and entirely agree that MS has entirely lost the ability to do IT infrastructure in any useful way. Even at an enterprise level, Exchange and outlook used to be convoluted to learn and administer before they became cloud based, as regedit was your friend and they always buried the settings. Now, it doesn't require a degree in IT, but rather a pointy hat and a reading of spell books to make things work... Sometimes. Sacrifices of interns might be necessary at the alter of Support, before they'll answer the phone and you realize they have no more knowledge then you to.

It’s fun to assume this is Microsoft being petty but the most likely scenario is Microsoft has cut their operating costs to such extremes they no longer have usable services or products.

This always happens when business majors are allowed to make decisions.

All the more reason to get LibreOffice and OnlyOffice!

this exact same thing happened to me a while ago. I really doubt some human blocked my account though. after hours of customer support call and emails (from another account) it finally got unblocked but neither yhe support agent nor me had any clue what happened.

I learned the lesson and gradually moved the dev accounts to a proton email instead.

Gosh, I can’t imagine why M$ would block competition!

It looks more like Microsoft's usual incompetence than a conspiracy against LibreOffice...

Us OpenSouce/Free-Software fanatics don't seem so crazy now, dont we

Ah yes, the Trump approach to dealing with things you don’t like. I see.

Setting an example for the rest of the corporate assholes.

why work for evil corp microsoft when you can join the fsf without selling your soul to evil corp

Again, anything important needs to be saved multiple places. While Mike should be able to use these services without issue, these issues continue to crop up since people first began saving things online.