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Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

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Re: Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

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Yes, Microsoft is to blame, specifically all current c-suite execs. They're so addicted to increasing their subscription revenue they're willing to burn down everything good they've ever done for just one more dollar.

Expect carnage when a handful of large customers say, "Enough is enough" and jump ship.

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Azure is Microsoft's attempt to get into the market that Amazon dominates with AWS. Microsoft traditionally was a software company. Microsoft today is a desperate company trying to make money and stay relevant in a world fed up with the bull crap that they have been peddling over the years. Windows could have been so much more and better, but it's now a sold out clown show, just like XBox, just like Office, just like…

IMO it all started going downhill for Microslop with Windows Product Activation in Windows XP. That was the first shot across the bow and sign they were going to be user-hostile. Now they want to neuter the KMS server emulators.

I started with Microsoft in the DOS, Win 3.0, NT Server 3.51 days. I'll never forget Microsoft promising, writing books that promised, RAS would work on NT 4.0 Server. It was never stable, never consistent. I ended up losing my first job as a Systems Administrator over it. I will never forget being burned by them. Then, there was the joke known as Windows ME (Windows MFE (Multiple Fatal Exceptions)). By Windows 2000, I was over it. I eventually got begged into taking on a Windows Server 2003 / Windows 8 install and talk about a constant pain in my butt. Active Directory seemed so hostile to any external hardware controlling the network. I don't think I could ever miss it. I have been doing Linux and Unix happily for almost 30 years now and I am so grateful for the open source movement. What KDE has turned into today is nothing short of amazing. What Valve has done with Steam and Proton is also nothing short of amazing. It makes everything including MacOS seem like it is a decade behind. I have to use MacOS for my 3d modeling software, but there isn't a day that goes by that I hope to see the news that its finally been ported to Linux.

Re: Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

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What does "serious" mean in this context?

competent, wishing to be competent, and not having your leadership suffer a psychotic break with reality: https://isolveproblems.substack.com/p/how-microsoft-vaporize...

Thanks for sharing this. It really highlights github's issues as well.

The more Microsoft directly manages Github, the more unstable, buggy, and unreliable it will become. Why? Because that's how Microsoft rolls...

Re: Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

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As a society we actually generate a lots of books. Future generations wouldn’t be missing too much without the internet I think. Also, not everything is worth preserving. Easily 90% of Reddit is complete garbage

That was in 2018. I'd upgrade it now to 99.99%.

That may be true for the relative amount, but it doesn't negate the assumption that since at least around the turn of the millennium, a lot of our knowledge, culture, and communication happened purely digitally and is at severe risk of being lost. The thought that nobody apart from one person considered it worthwhile to archive the public web (or at least did something about it) still seems crazy to me.

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.

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In the current business environment, keeping costs low is the correct way to do things, and quality is completely irrelevant.

I honestly can’t tell if you’re serious.

It's very close to the truth in any case. Poor service providers can take comfort in the fact that there's usually no considerably better provider that people could switch to. The race to the bottom is at peak speed.

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producing an os with a focus on utility to end user would be a start. Even just something that makes some form of effort to give users a return on investment on their hardware. Right now, you unluck massive headroom, battery life, and stability, on a laptop by simple putting linux on it. All that despite windows enjoying better all around driver support from manufacturers. A serious company would never have allowed i…

MS's core product is and always has been Office, specifically Excel. Windows is simply the delivery method

ok, if that's the case, my OS critique holds word for word if replacing with some libre flavoured "office" suite.
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