So basically they gave a bunch of nonprofits with fewer than 300 employees less than ten weeks notice that their longstanding Microsoft 365 subscriptions would be unexpectedly cancelled by Microsoft. So presumably the first time many of them found out about it would have been when their software suddenly stopped working. By the time they called Microsoft to find out what happened their data was already deleted.
This is what you get for moving everything to the cloud.
There was a time when I didn't exactly "trust" big tech corporations, but I did expect that their business plan would revolve around providing the service they said they would that people have come to rely on, oh how naive I was.
Say it with me: "The cloud is not a backup solution!"
You were just renting your data and your work. Renting it to the cloud.
...also, good luck buying cheap storage media now!
I literally switched to Linux because Microsoft kept moving all my files to one drive after every stupid update. They aren't there for a reason and one drive is disabled for a reason. Please stop enabling it and moving it back!
But to do that to non profits, that's just disgusting. The devil himself is ashamed of you Microsoft.
"The Cloud" is just someone else's computer.
When you give used control of your data, you deserve what you get.
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