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

Yep, this is the sort of thing happens when you've deeply internalized that trustworthiness and continuity is not important. Microsoft today is not a serious company, it is not run by serious people, and it is at the forefront of a deeply unserious industry.

I'm a tenant admin for a non profit. Just looked and I have 8 emails to two different addresses warning me about the transition.

None were caught in the Microsoft or Fastmail spam filters.

Cloud is nice if it works. Web hosting is nice if you pay for it.

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.

> On Reddit, and across Microsoft’s own Tech Community forums, more such claims abound of surprise deletion without notification.

I clicked the link with text “more such claims”, and it appears to be someone complaining about being unable to reach a human after their devices were physically stolen. Not sure how that’s related to the claims in the article.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckMicrosoft/comments/1ub7i1h/micr...

Did Microsoft give fair warning of what was going to happen to the data in the cloud that was stored there under these licenses? (I don't have a Slate account so I can't read the full article to see if this is addressed.)

Yes :)

But really depends. I saw somewhere NPR lost 70 years of content doe to a Cloud bill not being paid on time or something ? I forgot the details.

I am sure there will be more of this since companies are depending on the Cloud for their data storage. Now with AI, who knows what will happen. I expect Cloud Admin people will eventually be replaced by some AI type system.

Companies really should backup all data and send off-site. But that will never happen because god-forbid, they will need to hire a real person.

There must always be an "Oracle". With Oracle at risk due to its AI investments, it is fitting that Microsoft takes its place.

People are better off using LibreOffice on a Linux desktop

No Microsoft is not to blame. Whoever sells themselves into an all encompassing ecosystem with no exit plan or backup is to blame. It’s absolutely stupid thinking even if it’s the norm these days.

The cloud is a convenience at most and an expensive one. You do everything you need to do somewhere else and pray that no one else gets in or you get shot.

This is a warning to everyone else. Heed it.