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Microsoft have announced changes to how organisations purchase Azure cloud services. Starting March 2019, Microsoft will introduce the Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA), a new offering for Azure services which will make the “licensing transaction process easier, more efficient...
Microsoft have announced Windows Virtual Desktop, a new Azure based offering that aims to make desktop virtualisation easier for organisations to deploy and manage. What does it do? Its big things is that it will enable multi-user virtual desktop sessions – that is, where multiple...
In a blog post on September 6, 2018, Microsoft announced several revisions to current support policies for Windows and Office 365 –which should all be positive for customers. Microsoft product support has long been the subject of conversation, and it seems to be a hotter topic than...
Reuters report that the Israeli government is preparing not to renew their Microsoft licensing agreement for “Office, Windows, and server software”. According to the Israeli Finance Ministry, “Microsoft is trying to shift Israel…to a subscription system that...
“Office 2019 pricing will increase by 10%” Microsoft announced (June 25, 2018) licensing & pricing changes that will be introduced in the October 2018 price list. These will mean some actual price increases for a range of customers, primarily those in the mid-market...
Microsoft defends previous Windows releases Microsoft are adding “down-level” support to Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), making it available to protect machines running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. Microsoft are building a behavioural based Endpoint Detection...
We recently ran a Microsoft Q&A webinar. We asked people to submit their questions in advance and took them during the webinar too. The webinar was one of the best attended we have every had – which probably says something about Microsoft licensing, if not my attraction as...
Windows Server 2019 is due for release in the 2nd half of 2018, and the preview is available now via the Insiders program. What’s new? Microsoft have identified four key themes: Hybrid Cloud Combined with Project Honolulu, Microsoft’s re-imagined Windows Server management experience,...
The Microsoft Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server (formerly Windows Server Azure Hybrid Use Benefit) has been around for some time now. It was announced in late 2017 that this benefit would be extended to SQL Server – and we now have details! What does it do? The Microsoft...
A market surplus of perpetual Microsoft Office licenses provides significant savings for organizations looking to address compliance shortfalls or growth capacity for legacy versions of Office. European SAM teams have been able to buy and sell software licensing on the secondary market...