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I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't drastically reduce the price of their Windows instances. Microsoft is matching all of AWS prices, which means the Wind

I don't understand why Microsoft doesn't drastically reduce the price of their Windows instances. Microsoft is matching all of AWS prices, which means the Windows servers are more expensive than the Linux servers. Why not set your Windows server prices as the same as your Linux servers since you don't have to pay the licensing to yourself. This would make azure the easy choice for those running Windows servers. Maybe I'm missing some anti-competition law here or something, but it sounds funny that Microsoft is price matching Amazon's prices on Microsoft Windows Servers.

matthewarkin 13y ago
They do have to pay licensing, its money that goes from one business unit to another within the Microsoft Corp, thus to not destroy the Azure budget, they pass the license costs to you instead of eating it.
- nnq 13y ago
  It's not as if one business unit can't give a "90% discount" to the other if the grand common leadership thinks it's a good idea... now, that would be anticompetitive to all other hosting providers, but it would makes sense as a tactic in the "great war against *nix" that they are 100% loosing on the server side :)