no-ip and such are a required service for people to host their own "cloud" solutions from their home connections.
Microsoft makes money with their own "cloud" offering. which does not require such services. So by closing down on those services (or using the redirect to collect data) they are making their offering more attractive.
Obligatory car analogy: This is very well like Ford closing down all of Teslas charging stations because someone sold weed on one of them.
Nah, not really. A closer analogy is Ford shutting down all of Tesla's charging stations because the chargers had a nasty habit of attempting to bazooka any Ford cars that drove past.
The competition from no-ip to Microsoft from this is virtually zero. Any serious hoster will have a static IP, or own their own domain.
Ford shutting down all of Tesla's charging stations because the original chargers were replaced by mean people with new ones that had a nasty habit of attempting to bazooka any Ford charging station that were withing shooting distance. Those charger were installed by any customers who happened to be within earshot of a sleazy sales guy that had a solution to cure their cars for non-existent problems by smooth talking them about "did you know internet explorer could run 200% faster" even though their car ran firefox or chrome.
more like ford closing all charger stations because a few fords left unlocked got the stereos stolen. (how could i forgot the analogy windows=car left unlocked)
no-ip and such are a required service for people to host their own "cloud" solutions from their home connections.
Microsoft makes money with their own "cloud" offering. which does not require such services. So by closing down on those services (or using the redirect to collect data) they are making their offering more attractive.
Obligatory car analogy: This is very well like Ford closing down all of Teslas charging stations because someone sold weed on one of them.