Microsoft Update October 2018

As Microsoft push forward with 47% revenue growth in Q1 for commercial cloud, Microsoft push towards higher cost and expensive licensing ‘bundles’ to achieve record growth, implementing a swathe of price increases in October 2018.

As a CSP partner, 31st October 2018, you can now change the billing frequency of a Subscription for the Online Services from monthly to annual, and vice versa. Updated billing article: https://goo.gl/gJ85zS
Mainstream support for Office Professional Plus 2016 ends 13th October 2020, and Microsoft extends support to October 2023. Extending interoperability with Office365 services.
Microsoft Product Price Changes, and Level A Waterfall Adjustment – Effective October 1st
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). A programmatic approach to drive purchasing behaviours towards CSP for SMB customers.
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)
Office 2019 commercial prices will increase 10 percent over current on-premises pricing
The price increase will include Office client, Enterprise CAL, Core CAL, and server products
Windows Enterprise E3 will now refer to the per user offer only- Windows 10 Enterprise E3 per User becomes Windows 10 Enterprise E3
Windows 10 Enterprise E3 per Device becomes Windows 10 Enterprise
The price of Windows 10 Enterprise will be raised to match the price of Windows 10 Enterprise E3
Windows 10 Enterprise E5 per device will be discontinued

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