But I am talking about 6 EUR per YEAR, not per month - that’s what’s written in the original post: EUR per YEAR. I checked, that municipality has about 30000 employees. So 6 EUR per user per YEAR, which is completely unrealistic.

I’m guessing it’s a really small state with not much IT going on.

A small organization will have higher software license prices per user than a large one.

Yes, I am 100% sure: you responded to my comment where I say that 6 EUR/year/user won’t cover even Windows. I wasn’t talking about license capabilities (what’s included and what’s not), purely regarding the cost.

Mate, are you sure you don’t confuse per year and per month numbers? Those 180000 is per YEAR (for 30000 users)

50 cents per user per month doesn’t make any sense: I think for MS it might be cheaper to give products for free than to process these payments

Note that that number (180000) is per year, not per month

true

The cheapest M365 I see is 8 USD/month, not per year

Modern MS infra administration is far from “navigating arcane GUIs”: it’s all about PowerShell, IaC, automation etc.

It isn’t or the op posted the wrong number: 6 EUR/user/year is nothing for organizations

Certainly not this one: 6 EUR/user/year doesn’t cover even Windows

No

Of course

But the article is about a publicly available service

Oh You will have trouble getting your outbound mail delivered

1. So is Google Photos
2. Any privacy-focused service will be a paid one - how else will they make money?

Sooo… where will be your email server then? On your home computer?

They’ve been drafting this amount of conscripts twice a year for the last several decades: nothing unusual here, not related to the war - would’ve happened anyway

They draft this amount of conscripts twice a year for the last several decades - nothing unusual here and absolutely not related to the war.

In 2011 the draft was for 218000: http://www.kremlin.ru/acts/bank/32869/

Nah, time tracking is often needed for tax purposes: companies can write off R&D expenses

Yes! Another big deal in Japan is (yes, still is) translation devices. While some people there move over to Google Translate, many old-fashioned ones still rock those gadgets that look like voice recorders but with a screen, and translate your dialogue. Japan, as a country in general, is known for not so good English skills among the population: as I understand many people don’t really see a need to learn that language. Especially given that those devices to deal with foreigners are available.

There are many gadgets (including specialized ones) in Japan that have been produced for the domestic market only.