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Microsoft Exec Suggests AI Agents Will Need to Buy Software Licenses - Business Insider
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That's the beauty of totally arbitrary restrictions, you can change them as you want.
Pay by seat? Pay by client? Pay by byte of data stored? Pay by backup location?
... pay by moonphase? Pay by AI personality? Pay by virtual AI seat?
Such BS but why wouldn't Microslop extend its business model. It worked well so far. It's not about software, or datacenter, or AI, it's just about entrenchment.
It's also a billing strategy that only works in a monopoly situation. If there was healthy competition and no vendor lock-in for the office suite of tools, Microsoft wouldn't be able to even float this as an idea.
The one thing Microslop excels at is precisely lock-in.