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Exchange (on-prem) and MS Office (on your PC, not in browser) are due to get the green curtain, single shot heard treatment in a couple of years time. Outlook is already going oddly Electron flavoured.

I think you may mean king of (y)our enterprise, not in a constitutional monarchy way but the feudal form. Note how hard it is to make One Drive go away permanently on Windows. You can't, unless you nobble Windows updates and that is not too bright an idea.

Microsoft is literally launching a new version of on-prem Exchange next year after a major investment in rearchitecting a large portion of its internal code and changing the licensing model to suit.
You do not seem credible. Here is why:

1. You can get rid of OneDrive by uninstalling it.

2. You seem to be implying that MS will get rid of its desktop applications. This seems unlikely give that the desktop applications work well and are popular. Do you have any proof that they will be replaced.

3. You also claim that releasing a new version of Outlook somehow is equivalent to canceling it or ruining it. I switched to the new version and it worked fine. I actually liked how the user interface was simplified.

It's fine to prefer other products. That being said, spreading FUD is really not helpful.

Do you have any proof about MS Office desktop apps being cancelled? I have not heard about that. Also, the new Outlook works fine.

Credo - I believe (Latin). Please allow me to try and change your mind:

I own an MS Partner (secure http www dot blueloop dot net - ooh obfuscation missus!) I think we are currently "Silver" (whatever that means). It's a business relationship and that's all. We have a lot of MS "all in" customers that we have brought on and done as they ask to lead them to the cloud. We get rather little "kick back" in return and technical resources and support that don't exist but that is changing somewhat as we have tasked someone with sorting out all the little hurdles and minutae. It is a bloody faff though!

I've been an IT consultant, personally, for 30 odd years.

1. Yes you can uninstall OneDrive but it has a habit of re-installing itself, whenever MSO is updated or the wind comes from the Nor'East.

2. They wont be replaced as such, desktop versions will simply fall out of support. Try a search here: (1) As far as I can tell, you are supposed to hit the webby versions instead.

3. The new version of Outlook is a web app dressed up as a desktop app. That's what electon web apps do. Nothing wrong with that but it is not really a desktop app anymore.

I spend quite a lot of my time worrying about IT, given that I am a Managing Director of a small IT company. I've done this for 24 years. I've seen "FUD" and the like come and go over the years and have learned when to filter it out or not.

It's now time for a particular change: "stuff my coffers with gold because COVID n that has screwed my finances". Ignore the AI bollocks that the world is fixating on, its all about the bottom line for a lot of firms and that means cough redistribution of wealth - ie we need to come up with innovative ways of parting you from your money.

Lots of firms are now going all in on subscription based licensing to prop up the finances - it is practically a meme. VMware (Broadcom) is an obvious recent example in the news and MS has published end of life guidelines for quite a lot of products.

(1) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/?produc... (2) https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/ex... (3) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/policies/modern

You can either do as you are told or not ... the choice is yours.

Nah, they stopped doing this after windows 8 and the whole windows phone mess.

I spent a year learning silverlight and XAML, so I might sound a bit bitter...

> skype

Because it is data mining source!

google voice, you can still even get under 24h support replies! From freaking google! An actual support email reply, with a first name basis message!

It's awesome and scary, Like having a bear waking you up while camping.

Skype for Business has very little to do with Skype the consumer application. Skype for Business used to be called Lync. It's a messaging, and communication application for business users. It was replaced by MS Teams.
exactly. gvoice is also not available to consumers anymore. only domain/workplace/whatever they call that offering today enterprise clients.