March 10th, 2022 – All new-to-the-customer licensing must be placed through NCE (New Commerce Experience).March 1st, 2022 – Office 365 and Microsoft 365 price increases go into effect.January 1st, 2022 – General Availability for New Commerce Experience.Timeline for Microsoft Licensing Changes in 2022 During that time, they have added 24 applications to the suite, including Teams, PowerApps, Power BI, Planner, Visio and OneDrive and released over 1400 new features across the suite, including security, AI, and collaboration improvements.Īdditionally, along side the pricing increase Microsoft will now be including unlimited dial-in capabilities (Audio Conferencing) for Team Meetings to meet the needs of remote and mobile workers. In Microsoft’s August 2021 announcement they explained that Office 365 has not had a substantive price increase since its launch in June 2011. The cancelation window for licenses will be reduced to 72 hours, where previously you could suspend licenses to avoid being charged.Annual agreements will be enforced, with monthly terms getting a 20% increase over annual agreements.

New pricing increase of around 15% goes into effect on March 1st.Microsoft is simplifying the license procurement process, aligning all offerings ( direct purchase, CSP, Open Value) to the Enterprise Agreement (EA) model. In August of last year, Microsoft announced price increases across most of their Microsoft 365 license types that go into effect on March 1st, but that is not the only change coming to Microsoft 365 subscribers. Big changes are coming to Microsoft Licensing in 2022.

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