c/technology@lemmy.world · ryper@lemmy.ca · 18 Aug 2026 16:25

The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits

https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html

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@percent@infosec.pub · 19 Aug 2026

The real headline:

Over 170,000 Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?

Not sure if Slate is A/B testing or if OP clickbait-ified the post title

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- @luciferofastora@feddit.org · 20 Aug 2026
  Checked the source code, looks like we’re dealing with three different titles here:
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<title>Microsoft made a quiet change to a popular software grant. Small nonprofits lost everything.</title>

<meta property="og:title" content="The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits" />

<h1 itemprop="headline" class="article__hed article__hed--" >Over 170,000 Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?</h1>
```
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- @foo@feddit.uk · 20 Aug 2026
  
  Maybe it should read “170,000 nonprofits having to invoke their data restoration strategies and now in the market for ethical cloud providers, after Microsoft predictably lets them down”.
  
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- @ryper@lemmy.caOP · 19 Aug 2026
  
  I took the title lemmy suggested after I pasted the URL into the Create Post page.
  
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