Presumably there's a paid option to prevent this in your org too, though maybe that paid option is to enable Copilot for your org
Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work
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Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work
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Who are these companies going to go to? Moving away from MS products is notoriously hard for larger enterprises.
Apple for hardware. Maybe a few orgs even try PCs running Linux as we've seen in some governments looking to save $$$. Google or countless smaller but established services for all the online stuff. The days when all businesses used Windows and Office for everything and the competitors were half-baked also-rans are long gone. There is no lack of IT companies that will take your money if you're willing to move out of t…
Ah yes, killed by Google...
Google is a pile of its own risks. For all the problems MS has they keep backwards compatibility running for years if not decades.
Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work
#93Why don't they start to fix their AI they have running in Azure? Talk about useless!
Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's this "Office 365" you're mentioning? Microsoft has, I kid you not, actually renamed Office 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Of which Copilot is one part, like Word and Excel. Yes, a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription gives you access to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Copilot. Please don't confuse it with GitHub Copilot, a completely different product. Or with Copilot Search in Bing.
What is it with Microsoft and confusing product naming schemes? There was Xbox One X/Xbox One S/Xbox Series S/Xbox Series X. Or .NET (previously .NET Core) vs. .NET Framework (which everyone used to just call “.NET”).
>> What is it with Microsoft and confusing product naming schemes
Old but still relevant, Microsoft redesigns the iPod packaging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k.
Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple for hardware. Maybe a few orgs even try PCs running Linux as we've seen in some governments looking to save $$$. Google or countless smaller but established services for all the online stuff. The days when all businesses used Windows and Office for everything and the competitors were half-baked also-rans are long gone. There is no lack of IT companies that will take your money if you're willing to move out of t…
Ah yes, killed by Google... Google is a pile of its own risks. For all the problems MS has they keep backwards compatibility running for years if not decades.
MS used to be legendary for its efforts to maintain backward compatibility. I think it has lost a lot of credibility after the way it has managed Windows forward compatibility and support recently though.
It is apparently scrambling to offer extended support schemes right now rather than deal with the inevitable fallout of forcibly retiring Windows 10 on so many still-functional devices with no upgrade path to 11 even available.
It hasn't been very long since it forcibly obsoleted the Windows 7/8 generations that were also still in use on a significant number of devices at the time but did not include the level of control (or intrusion if you prefer) that Microsoft evidently wanted of its users' devices.
The difference this time is that it's showing contempt for even large customers' control. Corporate IT departments with all those externally imposed constraints can resist compromise and surrendering control much more strongly than most home users or small organisations.