Re: One can dream
- Bundle teams with office to try to kill competing products like slack, zoom
What does that have to do with licensing Windows Server on your own hardware?
- Removed MSDN rights from customers who use any cloud other than Azure
What does that have to do with licensing Windows Server on your own hardware?
- Require customers to ditch on-prem Windows licences and pay for new ones in the cloud, except for Azure
Have they, really? Are you stating that it is now impossible to buy Windows Server OS licenses for physical servers?
- Remove the rights from customers to take office to the cloud, except in Azure
What does that have to do with licensing Windows Server on your own hardware?
- Make customers pay for VDA licences in the cloud, except for Azure
What does that have to do with licensing Windows Server on your own hardware?
- Make Cloud providers sell MSFT software through a separate type of licence (SPLA) which increases in cost every year
What does that have to do with licensing Windows Server on your own hardware?
- Go on a concerted effort to convert older licences (that can be brought to other clouds) to subscription licencing which cant be taken to the cloud (accept Azure) - Msft is being sued by Value licencing for this.
What does that have to do with licensing Windows Server on your own hardware?
- Remove the bring your own licence option for competing SQL PaaS services on other clouds (amazon RDS)
What does that have to do with licensing Windows Server on your own hardware?
Seems that you are conflating competition between cloud providers using another vendor's application with licensing the same vendor's application on your own hardware.
Sure - microsoft v any other random cloud provider isn't a friendly relationship - however - you, as your own company/user, are still free to purchase Microsoft server licensing and run that on your own hardware.
You need to do your own CBA. If running on your own hardware isn't possible, for whatever reason(s), then you should entertain the next best solution. If that next best solution isn't the cheapest - then you need to take a secondary analysis and determine why the next best solution that is the cheapest, isn't the best. At the conclusion, you will have arrived at the what and why the solution chosen, is the best for you.