Cloud price wars resume as Microsoft cuts by up to 51 per cent Microsoft has made another round of cuts to its cloudy costs, for both virtual machines and storage. Microsoft's F-series VMs, which offer cores on a Xeon E5-2673 v3, are down by up to 23 per cent for Linux and 18 per cent for Windows machines. The A1 Basic VM, Microsoft's second-wimpiest cloud server, is down by up to 42 per …
You could say that on-prem you don't know how much electicity you're going to use or how long the server will work without replacement parts.
As an industry, we're all still working out what's suitable for cloud and what should be on-prem. Just need to ignore anyone that says 'everything should be cloud' or 'nothing should be cloud'
I understand that for on-prem MS you can hire a third party "Microsoft Licensing Advisor" who will explain MS pricing structure to you and make sure you don't pay too much. This suggests to me that their pricing structure is not the most transparent imaginable. At least I haven't seen similar services directed at purchasing peanut butter from the local supermarket.
I appreciate that I do not know the starting prices from which these price cuts have been calculated, but on the face of it as written ...
To quote from your article, "up to 23 per cent for Linux and 18 per cent for Windows machines". I'd have expected it to be the other way round. Or is it just that M$ greed takes precedence over providing a financial incentive to persuade users to switch to Linux?
Strange company, M$.
It's not that surprising if you consider the "love for Linux" merely a mask they used to con people into infecting that platform with cancerous* Microsoft-provided components.
Consider it evidence that the mask is simply starting to slip a bit.
* Well, I wasn't the first to call an OS and/or its licence a cancer..
"Or is it just that M$ greed takes precedence over providing a financial incentive to persuade users to switch to Linux?"
Why would they want to persuade people to but a choice that makes them less money and isn't as good??
In return for paying the extra for Windows Server you get better performance for most things, numerous features you cant get out of the box or without hacks on Linux - like network card hardware offload, advanced file storage, clustering, and advanced security features, far greater ease of use (really, editing text files in the 21st century?!) and fewer security patches required to be evaluated / tested / installed than for an equivalent enterprise Linux install...
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