Microsoft pauses free Windows 365 cloud PC trials after ‘significant demand’

Post by meowface » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 9:14 AM UTC

bachmeier wrote: post #103

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Ohhh man/woman. I'm a security person. I often work with my customers' central IT. I'm not going to have an opinion or judge you, but consider: You're giving people nightmares. I've seen it go very wrong (front-page news wrong). And then the threads commenting on "how incompetent can they be, blabla". I've worked with the people stressed, sad and disappointed that they got pwned because of shadow IT. It's a ticking t…

It usually goes something like this: We need software to do X. Call IT, they give you software that sort of does part of X, but it's some enterprise garbage where you quit your job if you have to use it. Call IT and tell them that's not a good solution. We have this other realistic solution instead. IT, not wanting to be bothered, laughs and hangs up the phone. Sometimes they'll throw in an excuse that everyone knows…

Post by raxxorrax » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 10:01 AM UTC

donmcronald wrote: post #10

> including one at the top end that includes eight vCPUs, 32GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage for $158 per month Why is it so popular? I can't understand the economics of it. Can someone explain? Why would I pay ~$10k over 5 years for something that's similar to the laptop I'm typing on which costed me $700 used? I know it's for businesses, but even then, does it come with tooling or something that makes management eas…

Post by nix23 » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 10:34 AM UTC

cududa wrote: post #171

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One could see i that way, i would see it as: Microsoft has still problems with scaling ;)

Artificial scarcity isn’t really Microsoft’s thing. To your point, their clients are militaries, world governments, etc. They’d never risk their standing on meeting demand whenever/ wherever for a marketing ploy.

Post by ehutch79 » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 1:11 PM UTC

edoceo wrote: post #50

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"No one told us about a new hire... when do they start... what do you mean a week ago?" is a big delay in new employee onboarding

That seems really far along the process to recognize the mistakes.

Post by pwinnski » Thu, Aug 05, 2021, 1:19 PM UTC

donmcronald wrote: post #71

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Companies amortize capital expenditures, while monthly service costs are a separate line item (operating expenditures). I think there's also a perception that deploying and support physical hardware has higher labor cost associated. If it take one IT staffer per every X PCs, the presumption might be that X is higher when the "PCs" are virtual. But mainly, companies aren't doing what you're doing: looking at the five-…

> But mainly, companies aren't doing what you're doing: looking at the five-year cost. They don't care what it costs over five years, or often even over one year. This quarter, the cost for that beast is $474. Can you deliver an 8-CPU PC with 32GB of RAM for $474? Today? Then the MS offering is better. If you're willing to pay $10k over 5 years for a $2k PC, wouldn't there be a ton of financing companies willing to c…