I just found out yhat you can’t trust Microsoft because they’re evil fucks! Pass the word!
I’ve been doing that for the past 35 years already.
You actually need to have your own servers or actively use multiple platforms as well as backup your data. No platform is forever and some are only there at a whim. Google has a bad habit of unpredictably locking up your data too.
I’m increasingly convinced that “The Cloud” is just a scam. Just keep your own files.
I never have and never will trust “the cloud”. If someone else is holding your data, it is no longer your data.
No, the cloud is just someone else’s computer.
They are not mutually exclusive.
It’s someone else’s scam?
Somone scam computer?
Always has been. Bait and switch etc.
For specificity, and to be fair to small-fry private cloud vendors, there’s nothing inherently scammy about offering remote IT infrastructure for rent.
But it absolutely applies to the large hyperscaler cloud providers like MS, simply because enshittification is plan A, the optimal and preferred end game for any product described as a “platform.”
Why:
Platforms rely on network effects, the standout feature of which is that user acquisition directly scales platform valuation, customer retention, and competitive advantage all at the same time.Once that market dominance is sufficient, you can squeeze customers with relative impunity, because your original competitors either went under or are too far behind to be a threat.
The rainmaking phase of enshittification is why VCs are willing to dump so much money into bootstrapping startups (to hasten their market dominance). It’s why many products and services everyone pays for now were once sold at a loss or even offered free of charge. And it’s why shareholders will keep shares of unprofitable companies for years or even decades.
Enshittification is the ultimate payoff of the platform model/scheme and has been from the beginning.
Sure, this small and mid-size services are just fine for backing up your data, and should surely be used as such. But using “cloud services” is nonsense. Too bad it has such good marketing.
Khosla had seen Microsoft’s announcement last year that it was winding down its free nonprofit licenses beginning July 2025, but, per the record, he should have still been in the clear. He renewed Canopy’s yearly license last October, and Microsoft had emailed him to confirm he would retain access until Oct. 4, 2026. Khosla had no reason to expect anything would change, and he received no additional warnings—even as Microsoft kept in regular touch about other software updates. And he later learned he wasn’t alone, when another company service representative called the very next day and told him that roughly 171,000 small nongovernmental organizations “lost everything” in their OneDrive accounts.
In a statement emailed to Slate, Microsoft wrote that the original offers were “retired to streamline our grant offerings and simplify our grant portfolio,” adding, “We strongly advised our nonprofit customers and partners to transition to a different Microsoft 365 offer for nonprofits before their renewal date to avoid disruption and data loss.”
As an IT person I can’t imagine just deleting customers’ data one day without keeping an archival copy. This feels like a mistake, in which case they’re being dishonest in order not to admit to their mistake. And if it wasn’t a mistake, it’s a sign that they aren’t competent at understanding their customers, making plans, or communicating. Either way, it shows Microsoft is not a company you can have confidence doing business with.
it’s a sign that they aren’t competent at understanding their customers, making plans, or communicating
For me that was self-evident when they rolled out Windows 11.
Fun story.
The licensing changed for Gates’ own Nonprofits too.
I just have a regular home license and one day my one drive was empty. The one drive I’ve pulled everything out of and after windows updates everything would be back in there again. Microsoft basically said there was nothing that could be done to recover my data. I switched to Linux that day. Like I specifically removed my files and turned off one drive in multiple occasions. And they turn it back on and move the My Documents folder back with no warning breaking folder paths for games. Such a shit company.
Keep in mind that you need backups perhaps moreso than you did when using OneDrive - 3-2-1 being robust without going crazy.
Oh that’s exactly how I wasn’t screwed. I had just done my backup 5 days before.
I remember that happening, I think they did eventually fix that
Here is a list of scenarios where it’s OK to trust Microslop:
What if there is a fire at the attractive children’s orphanage and Bill Gates offers them a new home on an island he’s developing?
Aww, did I insult a likely pedo billionaire that the folks here like?
It figures that when you say something dumb that you blame other people for it
Just learn from your mistake and move on, like an adult.
Not sure what the dumb thing would be. Seems extremely likely that Bill Gates was also part of the child raping. Melinda specifically saying his relationship with Epstein was a big part of the divorce and yet refusing to ever say she didn’t suspect him of having sexual relationships with children and instead saying people should ask those questions of him is an insanely large red flag.
What does this have to do with the comment that was replied to
Read them a few times and I’m sure you’ll manage to puzzle your way through it.
Yeah this is why no one likes you
Fortunately I’m not entered in the online popularity contest.
It figures that when you say something dumb
Not sure what the dumb thing would be.
What does this have to do with the comment that was replied to
Honestly, if you couldn’t connect those dots I couldn’t think of a way to explain it to you.
Jumanji was a pretty good movie about a puzzle.
Sounds like a big painting brush toward profit and Microsoft had the usual shit communication and execution.
More to the point though, this is the fundamental lesson many people who say they went to business school or are IT experts are apparently now learning; if it’s not free and open source you can’t depend on it staying that way and the last 10 years has been a sprint to enshittify. Why someone in IT would base their entire storage and archive practice on the assumption a paid service or grant will remain free through grants, when there is no money to go around to pivot the org is naive at best. I see these as the same type who will rail against inequality, fascism, etc. and then be on Twitter and Facebook. The nobler aspects of man cannot coexist alongside boundless greed and fascism. Move early or be prepared to “be shocked” when structural inevitability comes.
Libre Office and countless other options are out there, just waiting to be adopted. The cells have been made very comfortable by our jailers, but the keys are right there if you want freedom.
Generally hasn’t been IT making these decisions. Same as cloud fundamentally just meaning offsite storage someone else owns. The PR push about how it somehow is not that was/is massive.
The momentum of cross functionality is also massive. There exist many programs and websites that do not accept non-microslop files.
Management is obsessed with the cloud and “serverless”, because it’s cheaper short-term, and they don’t have to care about eventualities like hardware breaking.
Long-term, it would be far cheaper and way more secure to host locally, especially for data storage.
But we all know long-term thinking is something that management can’t do. And of course, the PR doesn’t help at all.
Yup, as a sr sysadmin I fought hard against moving our servers to the cloud. But the company never actually listened to IT about IT things.
I’ll take The Noisy Decisions RMS and Linus Torvalds Made That Devastated Microsoft for all the marbles, Alex.
Play stupid games win stupid prices
Is Microsoft to Blame?
No, the people using any of its products. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Please dont do any politics in your life governing consumer protection.
I’m all for consumer protection, but we’re talking about a US-company that also made many of the dumbest decisions since win1.0. Come on, it’s 2026, if anyone still does not get it why to avoid monopolies, especially those US-american, then who shall help those?
Crushing majority of people have no idea. They just know MS is a big tech corp, so probably not caring much about them small fish. For the rest, all PC are Windows. Linux is getting known a little better but we’re not “there” yet.
Also, most small non-profit don’t have an IT guy. They just try to get something that works painlessly and have better to do than becoming sys admins.
I have zero respect or empathy left for people that still rely on corporate *sswipes and their ridiculous products if alternatives are there. I mean, how can anyone be surprised by anything these psychopath corporate super-organisms do - they are literally psychopath entities that seeks destruction of others while growing themselves - no remorse. I guess these ‘non-profits’ were run by people who lived in a market-religion, went to business school, and bought ties - idiots… just a guess oc…
“Ronald Khosla, a former vegetable farmer and tech entrepreneur, keeps things simple at his nonprofit: He’s the co-founder, president, and head of IT for Canopy, a modest venture firm…”
So, he was a business c*nt, with a stupid/ignorant mindset, and a pet ‘non-profit’ project to give him a nice public image. F’ him and others like him for not understanding why tf ‘non-profit’ is here at all ! Their stupidity/ignorance and continued support for/trust in for-profit corps and that whole system, hurt everyone…
Blaming consumers is never going to get you anywhere. I understand the sentiment, but we’re kind of self-selecting here: if you’re a Lemmy user, fine, you probably know better than to use Microsoft products. But try to think about that older person down the street who has only ever used Windows, or that random small business that built their whole infrastructure on MS products in the early 2000s. They’ve probably never heard of Linux, and that’s not their fault. Almost nothing you say will get them to switch operating systems or word processors. And why should they have to? It’s the corporations limiting user options and locking them in to shitty/scammy products, not the consumers who just want a computer that works.
And yes I’m a Linux user, but that’s the point, I’m tech literate, while most lifelong Microslop users won’t have the ability to switch easily, and might not even know they’re locked in.
Empathy is easy, I recommend re-upping your supply and rethinking who is actually to blame for corporate chicanery.
