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Microsoft announce some upcoming licensing changes for hosted solutions. These will allow partners to offer more solutions (notably hosted desktop solutions comprised of Windows and Office), and will allow customers more flexibility in where they use their existing licences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This increased flexibility will come via changes to Software Assurance which will expand to allow customers to use their Windows, Office and Windows Server licences with any Cloud Provider partner on dedicated or multi-tenant hardware. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s no word yet on when exactly these changes will be implemented, but in the interim you can read the (very long) blog post here: https:\/\/bit.ly\/3lkgvqD<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft announce some upcoming licensing changes for hosted solutions. These will allow partners to offer more solutions (notably hosted desktop solutions comprised of Windows and Office), and will allow customers more flexibility in where they use their existing licences. 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