I get what you’re saying, but my point wasn’t really about viability of their price structure vs cost.

It was the fact that they are offering a personal M365 license AND CoPilot license for $20. If they can do that, they’ve already done the math and are OK with the price.

So if they are OK with the price, why not offer that same discounted bundle to business, adjusted to whatever business license is included?

But no, they want to charge business $30 for CoPilot alone, with no M365 license.

So this strategy is clear, they are trying to compete and gain adoption in the personal space, competing against $20 chatgpt or similar subscriptions. With that in mind, its a great strategy. They gain market share, gain your personal data for their advertising, and further cements people in their ecosystem.

So, lengthy way to get to the point of, they are screwing over businesses without a similar (if not comparable) deal, and then forcing problems because people will just start using their own LLMs for business use which adds a huge shadow IT strain and risk. So business will react in turn and shut it all down, which then kills adoption.

So they’re purposefully shooting themselves in the right foot so they can take a step with their left. It won’t work out in the end.