Microsoft Deletes User's 25-Year-Old Account with Thousands Spent on Games

https://xcancel.com/JoshuaKhane/status/2076918699248803977

52•HelloUsername•1h ago

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gnabgib•1h ago

Source (4 points): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911452

HelloUsername•1h ago

Ahh crap. I wish I searched first.. or can delete posts..

ralfd•35m ago

I dont think it will generate much discussion. Maybe if it were Google, certainly if it were Apple, but with Microsoft people will just shrug and go „eh, what did you expect“.

kurtis_reed•30m ago

English doesn't do quotation marks like that

CoastalCoder•26m ago

It does now, apparently.

morkalork•2m ago

And if it gets popular enough it can become proper!

DeluluDon•15m ago

You mean U.S. keyboards. Internet is global.

Retric•7m ago

You can enter arbitrary characters easily on a US keyboard, English still doesn’t use quotes like that.

It’s a mistake nothing more.

khazhoux•7m ago

He’a right, though. The comment was in English but used German-style quotations

ChrisArchitect•35m ago

Or just submit the source instead of xcancel and you'd find it (save xcancel for the comments)

burnt-resistor•25m ago

Technofeudal overlords pick and choose what customers can lease temporarily when they erroneously believed they bought ownership.

charcircuit•22m ago

>If you used this account for Minecraft, we regret to inform you that the game cannot be recovered. A new purchase will be required on a newly created account.

Welcome to the club of people who Microsoft stole Minecraft from. They deleted my copy since I did not migrate my account in time.

Qem•18m ago

lousken•15m ago

Even enterprise M365 solutions dont have backups unless you pay extra. Always have your own separate backup, ideally offline.

LightBug1•13m ago

What a bunch of wankers ...

Timely reminder to back every fucking thing up.

Trust none of these valley assholes to do the right thing.

Just make sure YOU do the right thing.

HeavyStorm•5m ago

Who the fuck designs these flows...

BeetleB•1m ago

This is why I always ensure I have a big enough HD. I've used my current cloud backup for almost 15 years, and am really happy with it. But I never rely on them exclusively. If they go out of business tomorrow, I still have all the data locally!

And of course, if my HD crashes, I sync back all the really important stuff.

(OK, I would lose prior revisions of a file - I can live with that).

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