@jspath55 as in the lettering is doing shifting rune patterns as you read it? not surprised tbh
I'm flummoxed, don't they have tons of gov and big business domains using their service? What's the play here? Am I missing another component (the various email service names also seem to morph)?
@xurizaemon One might assign this practice to a "bait and switch" trick, premeditated. But I expect the costs of custom domains (support costs, not infra) drives vendors to eliminate lower tier pricing and force us to pay the ransom.
@jspath55 yeah I see why a provider would abandon a sector/service that they foresee as a losing bet, sure ... But unless I'm missing a replacement/alternative product this is "bait and ditch"? And I can't imagine them wanting to lose the govt or big biz contracts so like... what detail am I missing here?
@jspath55 as I read it this isn't "free tier loses personalized domains", it's "Microsoft 365 loses personalized domains". Is that all Microsoft hosted email?
@xurizaemon don't know. I used "free" as a general term for similar practices, like Dropbox had free storage under a size limit, then changed their plan to let you only use that on 3 devices. For MS, the "free 1TB" etc. that comes with Excel/Word isn't free, just bundled like the email services.
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