Microsoft,
If your goal here is to do everything possible to drive me away from your products, you're succeeding beyond your wildest dreams. You're announcing with great fanfare that you're going to continue to let us deploy Office the way we want to, and the same way we've been happily using it for the last 25 years (device-based licensing), except not really, taking the caveats into account. We're a public library, and we have a number of public-access workstations, and a number of shared staff workstations.
#1) "The Windows 10 device must be https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/concept-azure-ad-join or https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/devices/concept-azure-ad-join-hybrid." We're not joined to Azure AD, and we have no desire to be. Library patrons by definition are anonymous users who do not authenticate with AD. Why is this unacceptable to Microsoft? We're already paying you three times for each station (Windows OEM, Windows CAL, Office ProPlus)? Why can't you just license us the way we want and the way we have been for 20+ years?
#2) "For commercial customers, the license is Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (device) and is available only through Enterprise Agreement/Enterprise Agreement Subscription. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/device-based-licensing, the license is Microsoft 365 Apps for Education (device) and is available only through Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES)." I'm sorry to report that - like 99%+ of your customers - we're a relatively small operation, we don't have 1,000+ users, so therefore we don't have EES and couldn't qualify for it even if we tried. So again this announcement is useless to us.
It is simply maddening that you're throwing one wrench after another into our operations, and it's quickly getting to the point where you (like Adobe before you) literally can't or won't offer a device-based license that's available to us with our size and market sector. Do you want us to switch to OpenOffice?