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They need to raise prices to fund the new data centers for all the AI most Office customers didn't ask for and don't want. It's annoying because for me the mos
by mrandish 11mo ago
They need to raise prices to fund the new data centers for all the AI most Office customers didn't ask for and don't want.
It's annoying because for me the most useful parts of Office are OneNote and Publisher. OneNote being a neglected back-water app they obviously don't care about and Publisher actually being EOL in '26.
- raincole 11mo agoWeird view on how capitalism works. They raise prices because they (believe they) can and that's all. Prices are not tied to business cost. Even if all datacenters were subsidized by the government, this price rising would still happen. Microsoft is basically a B2B now. Their customers are those who use Team and Exchange. Those customers are locked in and with no real alternative to migrate to.
- delichon 11mo agoI meet people who seem to believe that a platonic fair price exists for each transaction, that it is knowable and even obvious to the seller, and the ones who ask more are guilty of avarice.