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Microsoft is offering unintentional discounts to Azure users. The discounts are available if you pre-pay for a year of Azure. If you do so, Microsoft kindly trims your bill by five per cent once you spend a certain amount. If you're billed in US Dollars, that threshold spend is US$6,000. If you choose another currency, …

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  1. msknight
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    Better still... don't buy it at all!

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      You beat me to it.

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    2. Mpeler
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      Blue-hued clouds too

      Azure wouldn't want to buy it either...

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    3. TheVogon
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      Likely a large company such as Microsoft at least to some extent will cover the risk of currency exchange rate movements with FX hedges back to USD, so they would only need adjust the exchange rates between countries every year or so....

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Australians getting a hefty discount? That's just wrong. Aussies are supposed to pay though the nose for everything, except cane toad leather products.

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  3. Herby

    Isn't it wonderful.

    Arbitrage is a wonderful thing. Someone has different exchange rates than you and you move money from place to place. Currency traders do it all the time.

    The shame is that something as big as Micro$oft can't keep up to date on exchange rates, maybe they need to ask Google what the rate is today.

    Oh, well. Better luck next time Microsoft.

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    1. AMBxx Silver badge
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      Re: Isn't it wonderful.

      The alternative is to either have a single currency for charges or to change pricing constantly making it difficult to keep up.

      Neither option works well, hence we get a situation where stuff like this crops up.

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