Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?
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It's a dumb phrase and overused in contexts like this.
When people say a company is unserious they almost always mean that they're not thinking about, and taking seriously, the work that their customers do. This seems like a classic example of that.
Some define a standard others set it. This came up when my employer was applying for business continuity insurance
Just, you know, taking business seriously. Like they did even 6 or 8 years ago.
The core business now is execs ego-stroking each other and hoping disaster strikes after they cash out.
When Satya came in there was a dramatic shift in culture, and things were improving. I won’t argue they were super-serious, but at least getting better, and focusing on the business rather than the internal strife that Balmer loved to much.
But now… just the opposite. This IS a deeply unserious business. The tech bros got the keys to the combine and have no idea WTF to do, so it’s all cosplay.
The more Microsoft directly manages Github, the more unstable, buggy, and unreliable it will become. Why? Because that's how Microsoft rolls...
"He renewed Canopy’s yearly license last October, and Microsoft had emailed him to confirm he would retain access until Oct. 4, 2026"
Someone decided to pull the plug anyways.
Secondly, instead of doing a rug pull, what's wrong with a 2-month brownout period? Only allow the admin to login, put OneDrive in read-only mode. That will alert all users clearly.
Thirdly instead of fending of the questions from slate.com with Orwellian corporate speak, they should acknowledge their mistake and spend a couple of weeks of the highly paid engineers to see whether they can recover the data. Why is it always so hard for MS to say "Sorry, we made a mistake".
Seems like no corpos ever want to say that. Surely it’s not because of some pride or PR? I’m guessing such an admission might also sometimes have legal risks?
In history timeline, future archaeologists will probably see almost nothing, some books… as we are used to past centuries. But clouds, servers… gone.
BTW don’t use SSD for archiving.
Also, keep in mind that humans are historically very bad at predicting what of their times might be of interest to future generations. As a representation of the times, even some slop content has its place.
None were caught in the Microsoft or Fastmail spam filters.
I replaced it with Thunderbird Mail.
One of the first moves was to get rid of QA
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The big problem with shifting users from Windows is training. Corporations aren't going to pay to train their employees in something new if they don't absolutely have to. With that said, now that Windows workstation prices going crazy because of RAM/storage/GPU inflation, I hope that we see a shift to more memory efficient operating systems (anything based on UNIX like Linux and MacOS) but need 2x-8x memory (along with fast storage) to have a similar experience running Windows 11.
Expect carnage when a handful of large customers say, "Enough is enough" and jump ship.
Even a smaller software company will have better systems to ensure that the customers don't lose all of their data.