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Get Ready for Microsoft's Coming Licensing Changes

Get Ready for Microsoft's Coming Licensing Changes

Update: 2025-08-25
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Starting Nov. 1, Microsoft is dropping the programmatic discounts that were baked into its volume-licensing agreements. But price hikes are just one of the resulting fallouts for which enterprises need to prepare immediately, as Directions' lead negotiator Dean Bedwell details in this episode with Mary Jo Foley.
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Get Ready for Microsoft's Coming Licensing Changes

Get Ready for Microsoft's Coming Licensing Changes

Mary Jo Foley