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Yeah but it's priced the same as a cheap laptop and/or desktop, which of course doesn't then require you to pay monthly to actually use the stupid thing.
It feels like another 'Microsoft asked Microsoft what Microsoft management would buy, and came up with this' product, and less one that actually has a substantial market, especially when you're trying to sell a $350 box that costs you $x a month to actually use as a 'business solution'.
This would probably be a cool product at $0 with-a-required-contract-with-Azure, but at $350.... meh, I suspect it's a hard sale given the VDI stuff on Azure isn't cheap.
I think the idea here is that the businesses can lay off some of their in-house IT staff and pay Microsoft a lesser amount instead; the in-house IT staff does get paid monthly.