Re:Power Automation is now free for all Windows 10 users
by prepend on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @12:10AM
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How was this ever nonfree? Automate is pretty good but it’s been built into MacOS for many years.
Microsoft pricing is hard to understand until it gets to bundled or free. Their cloud version is neat but I’m not sure I know the price. It could be $0 or $500/year and it wouldn’t surprise me.
I just looked it up [0] and it’s $15/month/user, or $40/month if I want RPA, or $500/month for 5 flows.
This is in addition to the azure fees for whatever you do in your flow.
I wonder who pays these amounts since basically it’s just an azure api composer. This is just software that should at most be a one time fee. I wonder who pays for this at scale.
For comparison Office365 including email and a terabyte of storage is only $100/year, almost half this price. This would be like if Microsoft charged $100/month to run cron jobs on your machine.
Microsoft pricing is hard to understand until it gets to bundled or free. Their cloud version is neat but I’m not sure I know the price. It could be $0 or $500/year and it wouldn’t surprise me.
I just looked it up [0] and it’s $15/month/user, or $40/month if I want RPA, or $500/month for 5 flows.
This is in addition to the azure fees for whatever you do in your flow.
I wonder who pays these amounts since basically it’s just an azure api composer. This is just software that should at most be a one time fee. I wonder who pays for this at scale.
For comparison Office365 including email and a terabyte of storage is only $100/year, almost half this price. This would be like if Microsoft charged $100/month to run cron jobs on your machine.
I expect automate cloud will be free soon.
[0] https://flow.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/