28Jun/120
SImply nobody is rushing to beat the Microsoft licencing price hike
The expected hordes of customers gathering to renew Microsoft volume licensing agreements before the planned price hike next month failed to show up, say a bunch of reseller sources.
With the UK price list set to rise between 1.7 per cent to 25.9 per cent from 1 July, the software maker and partners reckoned on a mad rush from customers seeking to commit early to a renew agreements and avoid the increased costs.
Microsoft first gave resellers notice in February that it would align EU prices to the euro. In May it previewed the potential impact, which initially ranged from 7.5 per cent to 33.4 per cent before the currency weakened against sterling. Read more...