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• HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah but imagine if they could collect licence fees after every AWS server as well.

  The world is not enough for these companies.

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  • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My client is spending waaaaaaay more money on Microsoft Online than it ever used to on software licenses. Every single user in the business is costing 🇦🇺$30 per month alone just for their Office suite. That’s before you get to the Azure stuff. Some hosted apps cost over 🇦🇺$1k/month to host in Azure.

    Before you go too strongly after Microsoft for charging so much, this is cheaper than what we used to pay for running our own SharePoint, Exchange etc farms as well as the infrastructure required to host websites/database etc. All that has been outsourced to Microsoft Online and saves significant money.

    Microsoft is doing very well out of its own cloud fees and can cope with AWS, Google and all the smaller private cloud operations getting some of that action.

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    • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I know they are doing very well, trust me, I’ve seen the inside of the beast. It’s not Microsoft either, any megacorp will talk to you in terms of how much they lost by not fully monopolising a market segment.

      And that is my point, not that they don’t make insane amounts of money, but that it will never be enough.

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