I once heard that Microsoft subsidized caffeinated soda, but you had to pay for the caffeine-free options. That may just be an old wives' tale.

I'm pretty sure that's not true (worked at Microsoft in the 2000s).

Talking Rain was a popular caffeine-free soda there.

To be fair, I was told this back in the early 90s. It is the kind of policy that could easily come and go, maybe a couple times, in 10 years.

Not as much as you'd think; for me, at least, the sugar crash counteracts the caffeine.

There are a lot of caffinated seltzers now that don't have any sugar but do have flavoring and CO2

> caffinated seltzers...that don't have any sugar but do have flavoring and CO2

I think you've just defined sugarfree energy drinks.

I mean, some brands such as "Aha Sparkling Water" literally sell them as caffeinated seltzer instead of energy drinks.

https://www.caffeineinformer.com/caffeine-content/aha-sparkl...

Fucking hipsters.