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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by amelius on Sunday March 29, 2020 @05:23PM (#22722894)
I suspect the situation is that most customers have already paid for the service, and would demand a refund if they can't reasonably use the service.
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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by perl4ever on Sunday March 29, 2020 @08:13PM (#22723982)
In general, not necessarily with Microsoft, the problem is that once people get their money back, then the vendor can't pay its bills and you have a potential for the whole economy to go into a seizure if enough people are like "oh, free market, sanctity of contracts" etc.

This is happening in real time: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/29/coronavirus-mall-owner-taubm...

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Re:Microsoft: Cloud services demand up, prioritization rules... by rashkov on Sunday March 29, 2020 @05:45PM (#22723045)
Could extend this to large companies with multi-year cloud computing contracts with Azure
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