Choose Your Own Adventure with Microsoft 365
"You awake to find yourself in a dark room... with an empty wallet"
—The Register, commenting on the fact that when Microsoft's 365 Plan Chooser it simply recommends the most expensive plan
Microsoft is Microsofting again:
Did you have a collection of Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books? Microsoft offers something similar in the form of its subscription plan advisor, though it's tricky to avoid one particular priced outcome.
A Register reader got in touch after using the Microsoft 365 Plan Chooser. Answer six questions via the tool, and a result with a recommended plan will be displayed. This might be the Business Basic plan for $6 per user per month for an annual subscription, the $12.50 Business Standard plan, or the mighty $22 Microsoft 365 Business Premium.
Our reader mused: "If I follow the menu choices, it always selects Microsoft 365 Business Premium as the outcome."
Accepting the challenge, and because we still remember the excitement when a new Steve Jackson tome hit the shelves, we decided to try for ourselves, urged on by our reader: "Have a go and see if you can get it to choose another outcome..."
As with many Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books, there appears to be a key question: "Do you have access to an IT professional for advanced support and services?" Say yes, and almost all paths lead to the premium option. Say no, and basic or standard await.
A cynic might wonder if this means that Microsoft assumes there's an IT budget to be plundered if there's an IT pro on hand and so goes directly to the premium option. Or perhaps it's just that with someone around who knows a bit about computers, the variety of options available at the premium level makes more sense.
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