The August 1st Microsoft Price Increases Continue – Office 365 & More

I learned today that the price of Office 365 is increasing, at least in the Euro zone. The breakdown is as follows:

• Every SKU except E3/E4 is going up by 10%
• E3 and E4 are going up by 8%
• 365 Pro Plus is not increasing

As well as that we will see other online prices going up:

• CRM Online by 10%
• EMS by a whopping 26%

We already know that user (not device) CALs for on-prem products are going up by roughly 13%:

• Core CAL Suite
• Enterprise CAL Suite
• Exchange Server Standard & Enterprise CALs
• Lync Server Standard, Enterprise, & Plus CALs
• Project Server CAL
• SharePoint Standard & Enterprise CAL
• System Center Configuration Manager
• System Center Endpoint Protection
• System Center Client Management Suite
• Windows Server CAL
• Windows RDS & RMS CAL
• Windows MultiPoint CAL

VDA pricing is going up by 9% approximately.

My advice: if you’re buying soon then buy now, and enter a volume license agreement that locks in your pricing for X years. A good distributor or LAR can give you the correct advice. That’s fine for the on-prem stuff, but cloud services are subject to fluctuation, even in volume licensing.

To any “journalist” that decides to quote this post: my name is Aidan Finn.

As usual, I will not be answering licensing questions. That’s the job of your reseller, LAR, or distributor.