MicrosoftYah ours was definitely de-allocated. But what's frustrating is that many of us are trying to save our money for our company - at least in the long run when factoring in cost of replacing hardware - when jumping to a cloud environment or using cloud-based VMs. It should be simpler and easier and it should come with near-automatic controls on when a system is offline versus online. I understand that some VMs require it to be online all the time (in the case of a website or intranet) but those VMs used as remote workstations should be easy to configure and easy to price. They have the easy-to-configure part down nicely.. not the easy to price. If this is the future, then I really hope there's a lot more transparency on this and I think they'd see their growth numbers skyrocket. Some of the apprehension we've had internally is because this pay-by-the-hour concept requires a solar calculator to figure out a ballpark cost.. and even then, it's a ballpark. Sorry for the rant 😉
