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Bundling is anticompetitive and illegal. The MS ecosystem deserves close antitrust scrutiny.
So in that case are the following “illegal” - Apple One - Microsoft Office - Amazon Prime - Google GSuite - Adobe Creative Cloud - Salesforce bundling SFDC with Concur
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A lot of startups or smaller companies I've worked with are entirely on the Google stack (gmail, google drive). I imagine there's a scale when that option breaks, but I think it'd be fine until 50-100 employees.
I've seen it working for schools with 5000+ account so it'll go well past 100 users. Not sure I'd want to depend on Google though.
Looks like University of Arizona uses it: https://it.arizona.edu/google-storage which has 50k students: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Arizona
No personal familiarity with it at that scale, though.
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> And they say AWS has a hard time with naming :) honestly though, Azure's naming strategies do exactly what they say. AWS uses names that are adjacent or completely random (fargate?). i don't even think cognito is a word in english language[0] [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cognito
But we prefer a random name than the very closely related confusing technical names that Microsoft throws out.
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Azure AD Premium is $480/year per user???? What in the world do you get for that price point?
I’m talking total subscription relationship. It’s hard to buy Azure AD alone, they push the EMS suite and O365 E5 to solve the security issues in O365 E3.
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I don't know the details except that we've been using it since early this year. The docs don't make it seem like there's anything particularly complicated with enabling it[0][1]. [0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/aut... [1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/aut...
It isn't complicated it's just one push button - but it isn't the default and so you're going to need to persuade somebody they should turn it on.
The technology is the easy part for rolling out fido in the enterprise. The hard part is all the people stuff. (Although this too is getting easier, since a lot of orgs can now roll out fido with existing hardware via platform authenticators.)
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> every cable company is a local monopoly A regulated monopoly. Key difference. Although of course today "regulated" is largely a legal fiction. Nevertheless, it's not so simple as pointing out who has the most market share. It's a pretty messy area of the law, and the field is heavily tilted by money, even more so than most areas of the law.
It’s not a “messy” area at all. It’s just a misunderstanding of the law. If what you’re saying is truly “illegal”, no court of law has found it so since Office was introduced over 30 years ago. What’s more likely, that “bundling” as you define it is illegal and has never been prosecuted in over 3 decades or that you don’t understand the law?