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<blockquote data-quote="bazang" data-source="post: 1101842" data-attributes="member: 114717">Or whatever Microsoft is calling it now. From 2021 to 2023 Microsoft renamed so many of its products, needlessly added names to features to make people think they&#039;re getting something new, and re-shuffled the product alignments &amp; licenses to the extent that not even Microsoft personnel can figure out their own employer&#039;s products. In fact, only Senior specialists at Microsoft really know how to decipher the Microsoft products &amp; licenses Rosetta Stone. Virtually none of the Microsoft Support personnel have a clue. Microsoft Partners have complained for decades about Microsoft&#039;s obnoxious &quot;product re-name&quot; culture.Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, etc - all can be achieved 55.78 different ways on 29.41 Microsoft products &amp; platforms all having different names that will be changed 109.57 times within the next 18 months. All you really do know is that the subscription fees and add-on prices keep going up. With every re-name there is a 10% price increase along with a requirement to purchase an additional 5 different service subscriptions so you can get whatever was re-named to actually function under Microsoft&#039;s re-shuffle scheme.The U.S. Government receives 90% less from Microsoft for 40X the price of its 1995 contracts with Microsoft. A substantial part of that cost increase is driven by the subterfuge of highly confusing marketing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bazang, post: 1101842, member: 114717"] Or whatever Microsoft is calling it now. From 2021 to 2023 Microsoft renamed so many of its products, needlessly added names to features to make people think they're getting something new, and re-shuffled the product alignments & licenses to the extent that not even Microsoft personnel can figure out their own employer's products. In fact, only Senior specialists at Microsoft really know how to decipher the Microsoft products & licenses Rosetta Stone. Virtually none of the Microsoft Support personnel have a clue. Microsoft Partners have complained for decades about Microsoft's obnoxious "product re-name" culture. Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting, etc - all can be achieved 55.78 different ways on 29.41 Microsoft products & platforms all having different names that will be changed 109.57 times within the next 18 months. All you really do know is that the subscription fees and add-on prices keep going up. With every re-name there is a 10% price increase along with a requirement to purchase an additional 5 different service subscriptions so you can get whatever was re-named to actually function under Microsoft's re-shuffle scheme. The U.S. Government receives 90% less from Microsoft for 40X the price of its 1995 contracts with Microsoft. A substantial part of that cost increase is driven by the subterfuge of highly confusing marketing. [/QUOTE]

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