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> would rather pay for 1 product that does 7 things ok than 7 products that do 1 thing great each See Microsoft/Office 365. Aggressive bundling means one licen
by thewebguyd 5mo ago
> would rather pay for 1 product that does 7 things ok than 7 products that do 1 thing great each
See Microsoft/Office 365. Aggressive bundling means one license gets you literally everything. Sure, it's all mediocre but it checks boxes and is largely "good enough." No reason to go out and buy slack, zoom, box.com/dropbox, 3rd party email gateways, 3rd party EDR, DLP, an MDM, etc. Microsoft will sell you whatever "checks boxes" product you need under one license and cheaper than buying separately.
- p2detar 5mo agoAnd what do we do when Microsoft kills the competition and hikes up the prices? They already did some time ago by the way. [0] 0 - https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/1iwfgzn/with_the_upcoming_microsoft_365_price_increase https://www.reddit.com/r/Office365/comments/1iwfgzn/with_the...
- thewebguyd 5mo agoThrow our hands up and go "wow, never saw that coming!" In reality, the bundling should have been addressed in the courts via antitrust a long time ago before we got to this point. OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint Storage, InTune, PowerAutomate, etc should all be separate, standalone products. They are heavily subsidized for market capture. The EU tried, and now Microsoft has to keep an M365 tier without Teams, but it's only $8/user/month cheaper, conveniently cheaper than slack still and pre-integrated. Its malicious compliance.