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@Sky-Knight that's what I tell clients doing halfies, pick one and without Office, it's always a band-aid with Outlook. MS is fair though allowing that awesome sync for gmail.com users lol.
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I believe that's more effectively described as a "viral marketing strategy."
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No doubt they will force a 365 anything subscription, just waiting for that day to come.
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I think I can reduce the number of emails I sync from Gmail as well by reducing the Folder Limit in IMAP to 1000 or 10,000 – is that correct? It looks like this then stops syncing Folders with more than 10,000 messages. – which is not what I want.
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That day is already here. (Warning, off topic and a Rob shaped rabbit hole!)
The operating system doesn’t matter anymore. It’s just a platform. What really matters are the two ecosystems that drive modern business: Azure and Microsoft 365.
Azure is infrastructure as a service. It’s become the utility layer for business operations like electricity, but for compute. Microsoft 365 is the core of collaboration and communication. It’s where work happens.
No organization can avoid paying the Microsoft tax. Running your own infrastructure is too expensive, and no one has the leverage to justify it anymore. You still have options, but the smart money is moving toward Microsoft faster every day.
No company can function without collaboration software. AI is now part of that category. Microsoft already owns the compliant AI space before most of the market even realizes it needs to be there. Every day, more large enterprises adopt it as legal and compliance teams get involved.
Gemini? It’s already a niche product. LLaMA? It’s open source, and you can access it through Microsoft’s AI services anyway. OpenAI? Microsoft controls that organization entirely, despite all public pretense otherwise.
At this point, it’s nearly impossible to be in business without paying Microsoft something. And once that entry point is established, they have everything they need to expand across your entire digital environment.
Why? Because from an investment standpoint, it’s the smartest move. The money flows in that direction, and the rest of the market follows.
And anyone that would disrupt this? They're bought out long before they can become a threat. The EU doesn't like US tech companies for all sorts of reasons, AU isn't any more tolerant. The world at large is very right to be extremely cautious on all of this, because it's very much a monopoly. But it's also a monopoly that's grown beyond any nation's means to control. Microsoft is our government now in many ways, and if that's upsetting, I say good. We need options, and I'm out of them. Google and Apple are not in a position to solve this, and if you toss Amazon into the mix the four organizations are the only four companies really growing in the US right now. This also... scares me. Oh I forgot nVidia... can't leave them out. The Taiwanese company that pretends it's a US company and we just sort of claim them as such.
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