On: Office 365 global authentication outage

[Bender]

For me that is easy. If used for personal use, make it free (and thus, more popular plus free bug reporting for bleeding edge versions). If used for commercial purposes, not free. Then go after businesses that use unlicensed copies of the software.

[SketchySeaBeast → Bender]

So the companies in the poor economies have to pay for it? I understand you're not the previous poster, but these seem to be different motives.

[Bender → SketchySeaBeast]

I can't speak for Microsoft, but I could imagine some type of negotiation on pricing based on several criteria. When businesses purchase licensing for such things, there is always a negotiation phase that starts around 60% discount and goes up or down based on many factors.