Ok, but if the goal is “avoid paying for AI I don’t want”, M365 is worse. They were one of the first companies to start bundling it into every license tier available.
They didn’t immediately raise their prices when they started bundling it, but it’s the same tactic of using whatever tricks they can to inflate user numbers of AI.
Edit: In agreement with your main point though. Lots of angry people on lemmy who aren’t the target audience for MS products and don’t actually use it who make a ton of noise about it.
Still cheaper than Google though, AND better policy on training data and residency.
I’ve managed an MSP. I have cursed them too many times. Trust me I get annoyed with random teams shit.
Unless you gave me 5x the budget or already have a large team of engineers I’d never ever advise a business to roll their own. It just doesn’t make sense.
100%. Never been in management, but I’m in sysadmin/engineering/minor architecture design.
I feel like every time I get frustrated with MS’s bullshit, within a day I’m dealing with even worse from some non-MS system we have at my workplace that should have a dedicated team assigned but doesn’t.
Ok, but if the goal is “avoid paying for AI I don’t want”, M365 is worse. They were one of the first companies to start bundling it into every license tier available.
They didn’t immediately raise their prices when they started bundling it, but it’s the same tactic of using whatever tricks they can to inflate user numbers of AI.
Edit: In agreement with your main point though. Lots of angry people on lemmy who aren’t the target audience for MS products and don’t actually use it who make a ton of noise about it.
Still cheaper than Google though, AND better policy on training data and residency.
I’ve managed an MSP. I have cursed them too many times. Trust me I get annoyed with random teams shit.
Unless you gave me 5x the budget or already have a large team of engineers I’d never ever advise a business to roll their own. It just doesn’t make sense.
100%. Never been in management, but I’m in sysadmin/engineering/minor architecture design.
I feel like every time I get frustrated with MS’s bullshit, within a day I’m dealing with even worse from some non-MS system we have at my workplace that should have a dedicated team assigned but doesn’t.