Microsoft Says Price Increases Coming For Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise Users (zdnet.com)

Microsoft has price increases in store for some of its Office and Windows customers as of October 1, 2018. From a report: In a July 25 blog post, Microsoft officials acknowledged the coming increases. Office 2019, the next on-premises version of Office clients and servers which Microsoft is currently testing ahead of its launch later this year, will see increases of 10 percent over current on-premises pricing. This price increase is for commercial (business) customers) and will affect Office client, Enterprise Client Access License (CAL), Core CAL and server products, officials said.

Microsoft also is rejiggering how it refers to Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and related pricing. As of October, Microsoft will be using the E3 name for the per-user version (not the per-device one). Windows 10 Enterprise E3 per User will be rechristened "Windows 10 Enterprise E3." And the current Windows 10 Enterprise E3 per Device will be renamed "Windows 10 Enterprise." According to Microsoft's blog post, the price of Windows 10 Enterprise will be raised to match the price of Windows 10 Enterprise E3. Windows 10 Enterprise E3 costs $84 per user per year.

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Microsoft is a monopoly

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft can do this because they're a monopoly, which by definition has no serious competition. Sorry, but Linux just isn't up to the task of meeting the needs of most users.

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Re:I would be careful Microsoft.

[afidel]

File formats aren't the lockin, it's the ecosystem of plugins around Office that keeps it firmly entrenched. I've yet to work in a vertical where a company larger than say 50 employees doesn't have a few plugins that are developed for their industry that hook into Word or Excel or Outlook that are considered essential for users workflows. My current vertical is law and we have nearly a dozen for both Word and Outlook.