The idea is that users can circumvent IT policies which explicitly have not enabled or banned such products. Microsoft is hoping to sneak under the tent to enable more subscriptions directly from users if they cannot get companies to pay.

Which is a bold play. At my company, were I to try and smuggle data out to a third party-that is normally an insta-termination level offense.

Yeah this is MS spitting in the face of their actual customers, the IT teams that buy, deploy, and manage their software.

I’m a sysadmin and this is basically MS saying “fuck you” to my face.