In Belgium, home shitrooms are considered as a premium feature... You have to pay monthly fee to use them or you can get locked outside (or inside) without noti

In Belgium, home shitrooms are considered as a premium feature... You have to pay monthly fee to use them or you can get locked outside (or inside) without notice, even if you own your house. Seriously, nobody said a thing when HP started to do it with their printers. And everybody jumped in the wagon when we started proposing such a thing as SaaS, IaaS and so on. Apple App Store recommandations is 90% filled with subscription apps very few people actually use or like. Don't get me started with these pay to win games were you have to buy 'coins' or 'diamonds' to spend in the game if you don't want to wait 24h for a building or wathever before you can continue playing. I have consulted prices for a remote virtual desktop instance for malware analysis et reverse engineering training (I don't trust home virtual machine) on Azure... I have nothing again MSFT and think it's a company which still produces real value for its consumers on many fronts (as opposed as WeWork, for example). But the price they ask for a remote machine with very low specs is stagering. How a manager could decently believe it's a good idea to give away in 6 or 12 months the same money you could use to buy enterprise level hardware with 5x specs ?