Microsoft is a very bad comparison given in the article. Microsoft haven't found a radically better way to sell MS Office, or Windows. It's just leveraged what

Microsoft is a very bad comparison given in the article. Microsoft haven't found a radically better way to sell MS Office, or Windows. It's just leveraged what Mr. Balmer built, an extensive sales network, and monster salesmen who make car salesmen look nice, to upsell big, fat clients into buying grossly overpriced web hosting (Azura.) The best direct comparison would be if Intel starts force selling their corporate buyers an extremely overpriced Windows clone. We had a visit by one MS salesman trying to forcefeed us 365, and cloud AD, instead of out self-hosted AD. We almost had him escorted out.