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The Quiet Decision Microsoft Made That Devastated Thousands of Nonprofits (slate.com)
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[โ€“] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip -4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

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.