To find out exactly which licenses are available through all of the different ways to buy, you should use the Product Terms website. If you look at the picture below you’ll see that I’ve navigated to the SharePoint Server entry…
The Microsoft Customer Agreement is an evergreen agreement that is digitally accepted by a customer through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center. Any customer can preview the terms of the Microsoft Customer Agreement here. As mentioned at the beginning of this…
Microsoft use the term Open Programs to mean a collection of three licensing agreements aimed at smaller organizations. Between them, they offer similar purchasing frameworks for these smaller organizations as the Enterprise Agreement and MPSA offer larger companies. Customers and…
If a larger customer is able to, and wants to, make a commitment to Microsoft products then they will probably buy through an Enterprise Agreement. If they would prefer to buy licenses on a more ad hoc basis then they…
An Enterprise Agreement is aimed at larger customers who have more than 500 devices or users. It is known as a committed agreement since a customer can’t sign an Enterprise Agreement without making some sort of commitment based on the…
Microsoft have historically sold licenses for their software products through Volume Licensing agreements such as the Enterprise Agreement or an Open Value agreement. When Online Services and the Azure services became available many of the agreements were extended to allow…
Microsoft sells three different types of products: on-premises software such as Windows Server or SQL Server; Online Services such as Office 365 or Dynamics 365; and Azure services such as virtual machines or cloud storage. For the on-premises products you…
Use this section to get an introduction to the types of products that Microsoft sell, and for an overview of each of the different agreements and programs through which customers can buy them.