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Microsoft Raises UK Cloud, Software Prices 22% After Brexit-Fuelled Pound Drop (techweekeurope.co.uk)
Reader Mickeycaskill writes: Microsoft is to substantially increase its prices for software and cloud services prices offered in British pounds in order to accommodate the sharp drop in the currency against the US dollar in recent weeks. Beginning in January 2017 on-premises enterprise software prices will go up by 13 percent and most enterprise cloud prices will increase by 22 percent, bringing them into line with euro prices. Microsoft said it isn't planning to change its prices for consumer software and cloud services. The value of the pound has fallen by about 18 percent since the EU referendum on 23 June.
Freedom of movement within the EU is not a bad thing, so long as we are talking about Europeans. Not Muslim migrants from the Middle East or North Africa who want to Islamize the place. It's perfectly fine that someone from Lisbon should be able to go to Kiev w/ little more than some sort of identity proving that he's a citizen of one of the members. It's not fine that the EU mandate its members to take in those Muslims from anywhere, and then make it impossible for them to be checked at border crossings of various member countries.