15% Price Increase for Microsoft Cloud Starting April 1, 2023

Microsoft has announced a 9-15% price increase for all Cloud services in United Kingdom and Europe starting April 1, 2023.  See how multinational, UK, and EU enterprises can avoid or offset the new Microsoft licensing cost hikes.

• Perpetual licenses will not be affected (e.g., Windows Servers, Exchange Server, Office Professional Plus, Windows Enterprise 11 on-prem)
• Customers with a running agreement with price protection (such as the Enterprise Agreement, Open Value Subscription – Company Wide) benefit from price protection for previously ordered products and those products will not receive the new, higher price under that Agreement
• Customers with a Microsoft Customer Agreement (seat based offers, such as Office 365, Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365) do have price protection during the term of their subscription. Only at renewal of their subscription after April 1st or when they start a new subscription after April 1st, will they receive the cost increase
• Azure Plan through the Microsoft Customer Agreement is already priced in US Dollar with a monthly higher price and will not be affected
• Price adjustments apply to commercial, governmental and educational customers