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From: Lahcim Leinad	5/16/2012 8:46:26 PM
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Get ready for Microsoft's coming UK price increase \| ZDNet Excerpt: Microsoft alerted partners in early 2012 that there would be “significant” price increases coming to Volume Licensing in the UK starting July 1. Many partners were been preparing their clients for “up to 30%.” Recently, partners received the final word from Microsoft: Enterprise Agreements = 25.7% increase Select/Select Plus = 24.6% increase Office 365 = 21% increase* Open Value/ISV/SPLA = 33.5% increase Open = 7.5% increase* This will all but wipe out the Office 365 price drop we saw earlier in the year. This change does not impact consumer software or academic pricing, but it does affect many other customers. These are huge increases. There’s no doubt about it. An £80,000 order now will be £100,000 in 7 or so weeks! Why has Microsoft done this? Word is, it’s to bring the UK into line with the Euro pricing seen throughout EU/EFTA as up to now the UK has been up to 30 percent cheaper than mainland Europe for no real reason other than currency fluctuation.