MicrosoftI was incredibly excited to purchase a Microsoft 365 Copilot license today. I have been waiting for months and telling my clients how significant this product could be for small businesses.
I am a thought leader in the AI space within our community and I have been paying extremely close attention to Copilot. Nowhere, did Microsoft indicate that they were even considering a minimum seat count.
I've read articles and talk to colleagues that have been using the product for months now. Even these large companies have stated that at the $30.00 price point, they wouldn't be rolling it out to all of their employees. This, right behind the change in hard commitments on annual licensing which defeats one of the key advantages of cloud computing... scalability.
I am very disappointed in Microsoft. To say the least.
I was all in on Microsoft 365, but Google is starting to look better and better.
Not even my largest clients are going to entertain 300 seats at $30.00 a month with a hard annual commitment.
Horrible business move. It baffles me how executives that make more money than I can even fathom have less business sense than people such as myself that dropped out of a community college.
With that being said, pay me enough and I MAY consider joining your board of directors. Over the past 5 to 10 years. I guarantee you that I'd do a much better job.
It reminds me of the time Microsoft thought that removing the Start button in Windows 8 was a good idea when literally every partner told them ahead of time that it would be a problem.
How much money do you need to lose before you start listening to the people that our out their selling and deploying your product?
