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Unhappy with the cloud costs? You're not alone

2nd Hand Perpetual Software?

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Microsoft partners beware: Action Pack to be retired in 2025

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Why allow Microsoft to control and dictate your company's software spend upwards towards the Cloud?

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Judge dismisses Microsoft's challenges: ValueLicensing case to proceed in Britain

£270 million ?

At first glance, it does look here as if Microsoft has behaved in an anti-competitive manner but given the fact that ValueLicensing is one of the smallest players within the European second-hand software market, with a sales turnover of less than £5m pa, how an earth does VL justify that it has lost £270 million GP?

Microsoft: Enterprise Advantage will be 'a step in quite a long journey to modernize our licensing'

"TOLD TO CONSIDER..." Oh come on Microsoft...

"If you have fewer than 250 users or devices, you'll be 'TOLD TO CONSIDER' the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program...". Well there's a surprise - after years of failing to flog the Cloud to the levels boasted in the media, Microsoft now resorts to patronising the 'small' businesses with an oxymoron...this is not a dictatorship guys - there's no one size fits all in software.

Stalled cloud growth, software flatlining, hated Lumias unsold... It's all fine, says Microsoft CEO

Financial stats dampen the 'Cloud Hype'...again

MS continues with its false Cloud marketing campaign. Back in 2014, it was reported that MS's Commercial Cloud business accounted for only 5.6% of its total Commercial (perpetual software licensing accounted for the majority of the remaining $45bn spend (see report below). Nothing has changed apart from the way it accounts for things.

http://www.discount-licensing.com/files/Commercial%20Cloud%20Dwarfed%20by%20Perpetual%20Software%20Licence%20Spend%20(Jan%2015).pdf

Microsoft: We have a bullet ready for 12 competencies

Re: Not surprising

Very true - reading its financial accounts, Microsoft's Commercial Cloud only accounted for 5% of its total $50bn Commercial software sales (Perpetual Volume, Subscription, Cloud etc) but still we get overloaded with the 'Cloud' hype. There's no 'one size fits all' in the world of software, contrary to what Microsoft would like us all to believe...

Microsoft throws $$$$s at resellers who snare shiny new cloudy punters

A Catalyst for Mis-selling...

MS is desperate to avoid wiping more egg off its face following years of Cloud hype...year end incentives like this simply hasten mis-selling from resellers whom will not sell software to clients that they actually need.

Cloud-engorged SAP's profits nosedive by a QUARTER

Commercial ‘Cloud’ still Dwarfed by 'on-Premises' Software

Commercial ‘Cloud’ is still massively dwarfed by ‘Perpetual / on-Premises’ Software spend - you can read the statistics in the following LinkedIn Post or follow the next link for a PDF version...'Cloud' is clearly on the increase but there's no 'one size fits all' in the world of software.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/commercial-cloud-dwarfed-perpetual-software-licence-spend-noel-unwin?trk=prof-post

http://www.discount-licensing.com/files/Commercial%20Cloud%20Dwarfed%20by%20Perpetual%20Software%20Licence%20Spend%20(Jan%2015).pdf

Delving into Office 2016: Microsoft goes public with new preview

I stick with Office 2010 or 2013...

So after 3 years, no real changes in the pipeline for Office 2016. Why would any IT department want to waste its time and IT budget migrating to Office 2016 when it can stay on or migrate to a cheaper / similar product such as Office 2010 or 2013 (both supported until 2020 / 2023 respectively).

Microsoft: You want on-prem wares, UK.gov? We'll make you pay

Two things worse than traffic wardens: Politicians and Microsoft Reps

The 'Cloud First Policy' is a poor one, championed and implemented by ignorant government officials. Microsoft have done a remarkable job in lobbying weak politicians but in reality, the Cloud does not save the tax payer money for Microsoft's Office 365 product. Perpetual Office 2013 is still significantly more cost effective - read the following LinkedIn post, which cuts out the Microsoft Cloud hype - its commercially oriented but the same principles apply to Public sector Cloud v Perpetual software:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141208155652-26771970-microsoft-office-2013-v-office-365?trk=prof-post

Microsoft: Yeah, about that 50% post-Christmas customer price hike...

Re: Fuck you, Microsoft

I do agree with most of the comments posted here but you are very wrong when you say that:

"Everybody, almost Everybody is buying into Office 365".

I have worked in the software industry for over a decade alongside Small, Medium and Enterprise organisations. I have been bombarded with the Cloud hype and the fact is that businesses have been very slow to adopt the Cloud Office 365 over the past 5 years (the stats published to date prove it); hence the reason why MS is throwing everything but the kitchen sink at businesses to take it up. The 'Cloud' clearly has its place but the reality we are seeing an extension of the MS 'Subscription' & 'SA' hype that we saw 10 years ago. In reality, businesses are not taking up the Cloudy Offering and based on the past 5 years, you will not see a massive leap from on-premise to Cloud; more a re-balancing of Cloud v on-premise over unforeseeable future...

Whoops, my cloud's just gone titsup. Now what?

Cloudy Future? I don't think so, at least not in the next 2 years...

The only people predicting a rapid take up of the Cloud over the next 2 years are the vendors whom want to give you the impression that Cloud is taking over the world - the truth is quite the opposite. The only winners with for instance Microsoft's Cloud products remain the vendor and the partners / resellers receiving greater incentives. Most businesses (small, medium and large) face increased costs with Cloud over the period of contractual period (compared to perpetual volume) and I would be amazed if Microsoft achieved even 20% Cloud revenue by 2016 given how slow Enterprise customers have been in taking up Office 365 and Azure to date. And you cannot blame businesses for being sceptical - outages and increased costs are just a couple of issues to grapple with - would you want the NSA spying on your company's data?

Price cuts, new features coming for Office 365 small biz customers

Cloud is still more expensive...

The only winners with Microsoft's Cloud products remain the vendor and the partners / resellers whom are being offered gifts and incentives to drive Microsoft's desperation to move on-premise perpetual volume customers to the Cloud subscription option.

Most businesses (small, medium and large) still face increased costs over the period of product usage (compared to perpetual volume) as most businesses do not migrate every 3 years (more like every 6) so do not be fooled by the relentless Microsoft hype. The fact is that Enterprise customers have been very resistant to taking up Office 365 to date and this is why Microsoft is now attacking the small-mid sized market.