Microsoft raises prices for organizations using VMware and either Google Cloud or AWS

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An interesting chess move by Microsoft will make it considerably more expensive to move from on-premises servers to either Google or Amazon clouds. De
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Microsoft killed Office 2019 for Home Use Program

“Microsoft is updating the Home Use Program to offer discounts on the latest and most up to date products such as Office 365, which is always up to date with premium versions of Office apps across all your devices. Office Professional Plus 2019 and Office Home and Business 2019 are no longer available as Home Use Program offers.”

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-removes-office-2019-from-its-home-use-program-benefits/

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woody wrote:

An interesting chess move by Microsoft will make it considerably more expensive to move from on-premises servers to either Google or Amazon clouds. De
[See the full post at: Microsoft raises prices for organizations using VMware and either Google Cloud or AWS]

I wonder if that’s in response to last month’s Google announcement:
Google teams up with VMware to bring more enterprises to its cloud

MS wants to fight Amazon for top spot, and won’t welcome Google pushing in from the side—IBM, Oracle etc are already enough competition. As Azure is much of the company’s mid-range future, they’ll fight hard for it.

Lugh.
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Another way to look at this is, Microsoft will give you a discount if you go with their cloud rather than with someone else’s.

This will either rope people in or drive them away. It remains to be seen what the result will be.

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