Microsoft? Anti-Trust bundling violations? What year is this?? 1996‽
Oooh, nice interrobang.
Didn’t know that character existed. Definitely going in the rotation.
Really‽
I WISH it were 1996!!!
…please take me back to the 90s…I don’t like being old.
I support most of what Lena Khan has done, but this is stupid. Cybersecurity features should be built into the base package of all cloud products. The fact that so many charge extra for them is and always has been bullshit. It’s like trying to sell a car but charging extra to include seat belts and air bags.
The complaint should be that they’re selling a product that is unsafe in its base offering.
I agree that cybersecurity features should be included. In fact I think they should be included for free. The problem is that Microsoft wanted to charge the Department of Defense and it sounds like they used politics to make sure they could, and if true then they (and maybe also the DoD?) may have violated some federal laws around government procurement and “gifts” from contractors to the government.
What about having to switch from a $32/user/month license to a $52/user/month license for just one or two features out of the dozens you end up paying for?
Can you source whatever you are countering here?
Loads of SaaS/PaaS include things like saml, oidc etc only in the higher (or the “contact us”) tiers
No, because it comes from personal experience working in cybersecurity.
Guess you can never be 30 years too late
Jake from State Farm told me bundling was a good thing.
- The year of the Linux laptop
Bill Gates about to get extremely friendly with the Trump Administration.
does he still have much to do with Microsoft?
No.
He owns 1% of all Microsoft shares which are worth tens of billions.
The way my Surface Pro was packaged I can completely understand this, all the cardboard was pulled open at one side.
They lost it last time, and they will lose it again
Timely.
Just in time for nothing to happen when trumps picks defang the FTC (who has already been defanged plenty in the past)
