The new mantra is “Cloud First”, which means all development has shifted to provide functionality with Azure first, then on-prem after. In less than 2 years, due to Microsoft’s dev shift and due to IT no longer being able to keep up with updates from the accelerated release schedule, a subscription model (Cloud) will be the only way to go.
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