The majority of TrueCrypt users were on Windows and needed a GUI. Backdoors or not, BitLocker was the only comparable alternative. Recommending BitLocker might

The majority of TrueCrypt users were on Windows and needed a GUI. Backdoors or not, BitLocker was the only comparable alternative. Recommending BitLocker might have been a signal to hackers in the aftermath of the Snowden revelations, but IIRC the announcement also included a detailed tutorial for setting up BitLocker that was actually quite helpful to anyone whose threat model mostly concrerned thieves, corporate spies, and non-Five Eyes intelligence agencies.