Microsoft Announcement – Important changes to licensing agreements

Microsoft have just announced that they will be making several changes to their licensing agreements and product portfolios from Monday 1 October 2018. These changes will include an increase in price.

These increases will be made to both on-premise and cloud products and will include:

• Establishing a single, consistent starting price across all programs aligned to web direct for online services (OLS)
• Removing the programmatic volume discounts (Level A and Open Level C) in Enterprise Agreement (EA)/EA Subscription, MPSA, Select/ Select Plus, and Open programs (Open, Open Value, Open Value Subscription)
• Aligning government pricing for on-premises and online services to the lowest commercial price in EA/EAS, MPSA, Select Plus, and Open Programs
• Delivering a newly designed Customer Price Sheet that better outlines how a customer’s price was derived (direct EA/EAS only)

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