When the tech giant retired a popular software grant, years of nonprofit data vanished with it.
  • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
    39·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • dinophile@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      21 hours ago

      Almost 30 years here! I went from people around me at work knowing there were alternatives to people being shocked…SHOCKED…I could “do computers” without Windows or MacOS. What a whirlwind it’s been…sigh.

      • kalpol@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        17 hours ago

        Used to be able to buy PCs running Xenix, with Lotus and vi. Who really needed anything more?

    • Vandals_handle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Once upon a time IBM was the evil empire and Microsoft were the good guys. Remember, there’s no BM like IBM.