I feel that Microsoft are really screwing partners... the new hosted Exchange solution costs less and offers more than any hosted solution from any partner I ha

I feel that Microsoft are really screwing partners... the new hosted Exchange solution costs less and offers more than any hosted solution from any partner I have seen - I simply do not know why any partner will want to offer their own hosted Exchange going forward. In simpler words, partners that offer hosted Exchange no longer add any value to the customer experience or to Microsoft's business other than as a sales channel. Given the direction SaaS is going, into massively centralized clouds, this shouldn't surprise anyone at all. It doesn't feel like Microsoft is being predatory here, I'd say this is simply an instance of a larger market force acting on everyone in the space. A vendor who makes a hosted software solution is either going to host it themselves in a ginormous and expensive cloud or host it in a cloud utility like Amazon or Google. There simply isn't extra fat in the "supply chain" to support an intermediary host. This explains why Microsoft's own solution is cheaper and better. It has to be. My conjecture is that the only reason it has taken so long to be cheaper and better is because of internal politics over hosting their own Office competing with desktop license revenues.