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What was the O365 apocalypse?
by veqq 3y ago
What was the O365 apocalypse?
- coryrc 3y agoFollow this back a few years: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1230573/microsoft-on-premise-vs-cloud-exchange-mailboxes/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1230573/microsoft-on-pre... (Sorry I don't have a more-thorough link, though just those three years tell the story themselves)
- TMWNN 3y agoI would have asked mike_d about the "O365 apocalypse" if veqq hadn't. Your link is helpful, but still puzzling. If the onset of Office 365 got rid of tons of staff teams at universities and non-tech big companies, but each team only had a single-digit number of people, can you really call that an apocalypse?
- mike_d 3y agoMicrosoft sales folks ran around to all the large organizations with on-prem mail systems (both Unix based and Exchange) offering deeply discounted Office licenses and free UNISYS contractors for migrations if the org would commit to moving to paid O365 seats. Lots of well built and managed systems were tossed out for short term discounts, locking people into a glorified version of Hotmail.