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Re:Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed ... by cube00 on Sunday May 31, 2026 @01:40AM (#48343321)
They're working on it, they've recently stopped allowing the Australian government to be treated a single customer. [1]

While each agency still gets the same whole of government pricing for the next five years, I worry the next step is to make each agency negotiate their own individual licences, which squeezes the smaller ones with no bargaining power.

[1]: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/fed-gov-faces-major-m365-lice...

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Re:Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed ... by zelphirkalt on Sunday May 31, 2026 @06:25AM (#48344527)
More incentives to move off MS products. MS sales and marketing are just geniuses! I hope one day they will eat the consequences.
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Re:Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed ... by 1over137 on Sunday May 31, 2026 @09:13AM (#48345425)
We've been waiting 40 years for that "one day". I wouldn't bet on it. :(
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Re:Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed ... by wizzwizz4 on Sunday May 31, 2026 @11:34AM (#48346548)
This doesn't happen without a lot of hard work. Want to help? See https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/07/how-i-got-the-uk-government... for inspiration.
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