Re: It's an Azure push
"Look at how quickly CIOs heard the OpEx siren song and switched to Office 365."
We bought the Office365 licenses just because it was cheaper than the on-premise-only version but includes the on-premise version as well. We never activated or looked into the online part though.
MS is obviously just playing weird licensing games to push their agenda. You pay top-dollar for crappy software that doesn't even include support.