Re:Visual Studio online available for public preview
by tonyedgecombe on Monday November 04, 2019 @10:23AM
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Lock-in and future abuse when you can't escape the relationship.
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Re:Visual Studio online available for public preview
by Enginerrrd on Monday November 04, 2019 @04:16PM
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I'm sure there's a value proposition in there somewhere, but looking at the way "software as a service" type models have been abused once users are committed and specifically looking at Microsoft's track record with things like the Zune DRM debacle, I think you'd have to be out of your mind to transition your company or team over to this.
I recently transitioned to office 365 a year or two ago. Boy that was a huge mistake. Even though I still have 5 shares available, apparently they require office 365 users to login once a month, or they'll lock you out of your own software. Which makes zero sense because since I still have shares, there's not really a viable way to abuse that.
This recently screwed me during the PG&E shutoffs and easily cost me $1000 in downtime for me and my team.