FreedomAdvocate @ FreedomAdvocate @lemmy.net.au

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You can try to do all that, sure - but Apple don’t have to enable you to do it, and they damn sure well don’t have to write software specifically so you can do it.

It’s your hardware, but you bought it with any restrictions they put on it and you’re under no entitlement for them to remove them.

It’s not an office suite subscription. It’s basically a complete business productivity solution. M365 != Office. By your post it’s clear that you don’t understand the difference. The MFA for example is organisation wide, not for excel or word lol

M365 includes office, but it’s not just office. Office is one of the least important parts of it tbh. This is evident by the fact that some tiers don’t even include office.

It’s clear that most people in here bashing Microsoft over this don’t even know what M365 is and have never been in charge of any decision making for anything IT related in even a small business.

Entra for 10 people is unnecessary.

What windows license? The ones that every computer comes with already?

Epic intentionally broke the rules of the contract they agreed to, and had a lawsuit ready to go as soon as Apple rightfully removed their game from the store over the breach of contract. Epic were not the good guys.

You guys need to get this idea out of your head that the makers of the device that you bought need to provide ways for you to do what you want with it. They don’t, and any attempt to force them to write software to do so should be denied.

You can do whatever the hell you like with your hardware. Take it apart, take it fishing, try and hack it, have sex with it - whatever you want! But the device makers aren’t responsible for giving you ways to hack it.

The position that what Israel are doing is a genocide is the sticking point, and one that is highly contested. I don’t believe that what they’re doing is, because they’re not trying to erase an entire national or ethnic group - just Hamas.

I’m not alone in thinking this, but I’m expecting I’ll be banned for saying it with how Lemmy is.

Hamas literally outright call for the genocide of Jews and Israelis btw. Hamas NEED to be eliminated, and the only ones who disagree are people who agree with their calls for genocide.

Ok so you agree that Sony shouldn’t have to let you install and play anything you want on their console, but Apple needs to be different because…….reasons? Reasons that you can’t articulate.

What are the “arguably bad business practices” here? I would argue that Epic pissing off the manufacturer of the most popular phones in the world, which have over 90% of all in-app purchase $$$$ spent in the mobile world, is bad business practice - not even arguably.

As for anything “benefiting me”……am I not allowed an opinion or to express it unless it’s echo chamber aligned? Is it only allowed if it ignores all logic and is just mindless anger against [insert big corporation name here]?

I’m giving context to the situation.

I wasn’t “licking big corporate boot” in the first place. I said that epic have no one but themselves to blame, which is true. I said if epic did to me what they did to Apple, I’d tell them to get fucked if they ever tried to put stuff on my store again.

No bootlicking at all, but that doesn’t stop some losers from throwing out the term because they hate company X. Apple built a product, and they’re entitled to make it a closed ecosystem. We, as consumers, are entitled to not buy or use their products if we don’t like them, their policies, etc.

People vote with their wallets, and unfortunately for the Apple haters, the votes keep coming up Apple no matter how many recounts there are. Android is right there as an alternative and lets you do basically whatever you want with it, yet outside of third world countries the iPhone rules the roost.

Of course not.

Each user gets 1TB on Business Basic.

Google did it first according to the article, that’s why this non-profit moved to MS.

What exactly does Linux offer that M365 does? Linux is an operating system, not a full suite of business management software.

LibreOffice is not a replacement for M365 though, it’s a replacement for Office. M365 is not just office.

LibreOffice doesn’t give every user 1TB of cloud storage space. It doesn’t give you a company email address and management tools for users. It doesn’t give you 95% of what M365 does.

I work for a company that does 10s of billions in revenue, and the finance departments all use excel as well. Pretty much every giant corporations finance departments use excel.

The article clearly states that this non-profit moved from Google to Microsoft after Google started charging lol

Outlook alternatives are irrelevant when you don’t have your own email address. Microsoft 365 gives your company your corporate email.

Why would you want cloud storage for users in a business? Why would you want multifactor authentication for your users? Are you serious?

Microsoft 365 Business Basic gives you all this:

Plan highlights:

• Identity and access management for up to 300 users 
• Web and mobile versions3 of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook 
• Custom business email (youyourbusiness.com) 
• Chat, call, and video conference with Microsoft Teams 
• 1 TB of cloud storage per employee 
• 10+ additional apps for your business needs (including Microsoft Bookings, Planner, and Forms) 
• AI chat experience with web grounding, writing assistance, data analysis, and access to agents4
• Automatic spam and malware filtering 
• Anytime phone and web support

LibreOffice gives you ………. 1 of those bullet points lol. Not really a like for like replacement is it?

Not “basically” btw - entra is the azure/cloud version of AD. It was renamed.

This article clearly states that this non-profit switched to MS specifically because Google changed their non-profit plans to be paid.