> My suspicion is they would have managed to avoid customer confusion, and captured pretty much all the same economic value, with a simple list of: You are pro

> My suspicion is they would have managed to avoid customer confusion, and captured pretty much all the same economic value, with a simple list of: You are probably right, but doing so would have cost MS a significant amount of money. This is an entrenched company trying to avoid killing so many cash cows. Likely the biggest motivation for this segmentation/pricing strategy is profit extraction from existing, business customers.