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    Microsoft-Manager schlagen vor, dass KI-Agenten genau wie Mitarbeiter Softwarelizenzen kaufen müssen


    Microsoft-Manager schlagen vor, dass KI-Agenten genau wie Mitarbeiter Softwarelizenzen kaufen müssen

    https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-suggests-ai-agents-buy-software-licenses-seats-2026-4

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    2. Tower21 on

      And the cards keep tumbling down, the cost to utilize AI in business, heck even for personal use is going to be a bitter pill to swallow when the true costs are expected to be paid.

      Good.

    9. EmbarrassedHelp on

      So another way for Oracle and the other shitty companies to extort and steal from others.

      Why would anyone other than copyright trolls and licensing scammers want that?

    11. Best_Market4204 on

      I mean…

      Useally selling software to companies are hardly ever upfront about pricing. They want information about how big you are, how much are you planning to do xyz to come up with a price.

      Just sounds like they want to artificially pump numbers up…

    15. swrrrrg on

      If it’s as intelligent and malicious as they’ve claimed, shouldn’t it be smart enough to avoid paying them?

    16. xpda on

      I hope those agents have good credit — otherwise they’re gonna have to write their own software because I won’t be paying for it.

    17. daftstar on

      Machine to machine transactions. That’s going to be an ‘interesting’ economy.

    22. anoff on

      It’s like they’re actively trying to see how far they can go until we switch to Linux (or Mac, for the non-tech inclined).

      The irony is that AI is way better on Linux, where almost every single aspect of the OS can easily be interacted with from the CLI, no need for heavy image processing or mouse emulation. Once you use Claude Code on Linux, you never want to go back to cludgy fucking Windows

    23. iprocrastina on

      Uh oh! Are the tech CEOs who were so giddy about replacing everyone with AI starting to realize AI agents dont buy things? Wait til he realizes that if AI is good enough to eliminate almost all software engineers then software itself becomes worthless because there’s no longer any real barrier to building your own custom solutions.

      Also the idea in the first place that agents need email and MS Office is silly. AI can just magic a well formatted text document into existence, it doesnt need MS Word. AI can communicate directly with other AI in a myriad of ways, it doesnt need email or Teams.

    24. tc100292 on

      They’re making the concept of AI agents sound even dumber than it already did.

    25. onyxlabyrinth1979 on

      This feels inevitable if agents are acting like users, but the messy part is how licenses map to workflows as one agent can touch 5 tools in a single task. Are you licensing per agent, per action, or per system? That gets expensive fast, and way harder to reason about than human seats.

    26. giibro on

      Seems about right, ai agent gets coded to perform certain tasks and then upcharge customers for more advanced tasks

    30. mashem on

      I’d be surprised if they didn’t. We already have to license certain service accounts.

    31. EuropaWeGo on

      Oh this is most definitely not going to go over well with my companies leadership. They’re already weary of the rising token costs and our token usage is greatly increasing as management demands a higher velocity because „AI can do it all“.

      If the overall costs of using these agents keep rising at the current pace. Then these agents won’t be nearly as cost effective anymore.

    33. redvelvetcake42 on

      Lol ain’t no suggestion, it will be required and I guarantee they’ll cut a deal if you use copilot.

    34. CanadianPropagandist on

      They really are just wishlisting. No consumer benefit, no needed product. Just „yeah, we want money now give money“.

    35. Mr-Nanny on

      Microsoft is handling AI worse than any other major corporation. It’s honestly unbelievable.

    36. Skylion007 on

      This is one the things that killed Matlab. When distributed computing, cloud compute, and running jobs on multiple machines began to become more popular, people began to rely on alternate free tools. In college, I changed over an entire course’s curriculum from Matlab to Python so that we could use cloud computing provided, Gradescope autograders more easily.

    38. Valdor-13 on

      Ah, so that’s the plan. When AI takes all the jobs, just make the AI buy your products.

    39. Moxplug on

      licenses to what

      your dogshit word app

      lmfao, MS doesn’t do anything – what is your moat

    41. jamiecarl09 on

      As long as the total cost of an AI agent is $1 less than the cost of an employee, companies will gladly pay it.

    43. myztry on

      Entering a licensing contract with an entity that can’t enter into contracts is a novel idea. Kind of like trying to enforce a contract a 3 year old clicked next on.

    44. accountforfurrystuf on

      Make the AI wear a suit and tie and come in to the office every 3 days while you’re at it.

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