Paul Thurrott’s short, wry response in Ask Paul: October 3 crystallizes a tension millions of Windows users are feeling right now — admiration for what AI can do, coupled with reluctance to pay a new recurring premium for features many believe used to be “just part of the product.” His position...
Multi‑vendor AI strategies promised a new era of vendor competition and lower prices for enterprise software — but the early evidence shows the opposite: rising software bills, unpredictable budgets, and a shifting cost base that rewards cloud infrastructure owners more than application vendors...
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Microsoft appears to be quietly reworking how it charges businesses for Copilot — moving role-based Copilots for Sales, Service, and Finance into the core Microsoft 365 Copilot offering, reorganizing teams around an “agent-native” strategy, and shifting how custom agents are metered. If...
The game is changing, folks. Microsoft has made the bold move to revamp how organizations pay for their Microsoft 365 Copilot, its highly anticipated generative AI assistant. Instead of the traditional per-user subscription pricing, Copilot will now offer a consumption-based pricing model...