• mlg@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    It’s because they sell all of their products as a vendor package with advertised SLAs and “discounts”.

    If your company needs cloud stuff and you happen to want Azure, you’re basically getting locked into Teams.

    Unlike specialty software like Adobe, pretty much everything Microsoft offers has feature parity or superior alternatives, it just relies on the fact that businesses aren’t stuck on any one of their products.

    There are actually a handful of companies that only use MacOS or Linux, but it requires both your IT team and management to be competent enough to throw MSFT away, which is much harder to do in a legacy settings when your entire domain infara is a 20+ year old AD domain.