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The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits (slate.com)
submitted 4 days ago by ryper@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] percent@infosec.pub 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

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

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

Checked the source code, looks like we're dealing with three different titles here:

<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>
[–] foo@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

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".

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

I took the title lemmy suggested after I pasted the URL into the Create Post page.