I’ve been reading blog after blog of the same thing in different words. Short version.
Many people feel like its designed extortion over time.
- Azure\intune is so awesome, I wished we’d moved everything there sooner.
later in time.
- What do you mean some of the features we really liked are either no longer free or are raising in price per machine\user.
later in time
- What do you mean are getting rid of “x” feature only to replace it with something newer at a greater cost.
later in time
- What do you mean you’re increasing the price of everything per machine\user, it’d been cheaper if we stayed on prem and NOT have moved to intune and azure. Oh you know that’d cost us a fortune and then some to move back on prem.
It’s true there’s nothing out there like MS products, server, desktop, office suite etc… its all good. All of this sentiment though is encouraging creative thought to move away from Azure\Intune and\or never jump on board to begin with. Other solutions for office are being tested and even developed. Other desktop solutions (desktop gui linux) are being tested and looked into. Will there be a mass migration sooner rather than later, of course not. MS is locked in on all that incoming revenue and they know it. They have many customers by the b@lls……for now. 5 years from now, may be a different story. The whole world very well may be all 100% Azure\intune but sometimes I think MS management needs to consider that it very well also may be the other way around.