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

Posted by msmash on from the hit-on-wallet dept.

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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  1. Licensing gets more "innovation" than Excel by kingbilly · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wish Excel got the same attention as the convoluted licensing models. Have you ever tried to open more than one file at a time in Excel? I have 4 monitors at work which make it easy to have source, destination, and documentation all visible at the same time with most programs. But Excel is autistic.



    And have you ever tried to make a quick CSV file? Check out this level of autism:

    *Begin saving file*
    The selected file type does not support workbooks that contain multiple sheets.
    Expected warning, though the default in Excel is to create a new workbook with multiple sheets. How arbitrary.
    Google Sheets does not have this problem, nor default to more sheets until you need them

    Book1.csv may contain features that are not compatible with CSV.
    Fair enough, though this delay occurs every single save which means they aren't even trying to see if such features even exist.
    Google sheets does not have this problem

    Now I am done, so it is time to close Excel and be on my merr...

    Do you want to save the changes you made to Book1.csv?
    I thought I just saved them? It's not like I hit an export button like in Gimp or Photoshop.

    Book1.csv may contain features that are not compatible with CSV.
    ARE YOU SERIOUS? The SAME message again?

    1. Re:Licensing gets more "innovation" than Excel by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      Have you ever tried to open more than one file at a time in Excel?

      A co-worker showed me a trick not so long ago. When you go to open Excel from the Start menu, hold down the shift-key.

      You'll open a separate instance of Excel, which will allow you to have a second window. Not sure it would scale to a 3rd or 4th window (likely depends on our RAM).

      Being able to have two windows of Excel on two monitors greatly simplifies things. Why they think Excel shouldn't have that is well beyond me.

  2. Re: Microsoft is a monopoly by SadOldTechie · · Score: 5, Informative

    Libreoffice is actually a perfectly good Office tool. It just doesn't have the thousand bells and whistles that most people don't use. Oh, and it runs on Linux, Mac and Windows. Oh and its ethical. Several goods there and quite enough for me (alt-tab back to Lbreoffice).