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0 pointsDrBazza4y ago0 comments

That's kind of my point. A $2tn company can probably just write off what little piracy there is left, even more so now that everything is "webby". So why they feel the need to add this to a platform they're now effectively giving away for free for the reasons you state is even more bizarre.

I guess data is the next billion dollar department in Microsoft, and this is them harvesting even more of it.

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Nexxxeh4y ago

My reading of it is, it makes signing up to 365 and XBGPU as frictionless as possible. If you're already identified and authenticated by the time you're presented with the options...

If you force people to do it early in the process, you won't struggle to through that objection and difficulty when you want them to metaphorically pull out their wallets.

And to make advertising more targetted, again it's recurring revenue.

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0 pointsDrBazza4y ago0 comments

I guess data is the next billion dollar department in Microsoft, and this is them harvesting even more of it.

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Nexxxeh4y ago

My reading of it is, it makes signing up to 365 and XBGPU as frictionless as possible. If you're already identified and authenticated by the time you're presented with the options...

If you force people to do it early in the process, you won't struggle to through that objection and difficulty when you want them to metaphorically pull out their wallets.

And to make advertising more targetted, again it's recurring revenue.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse