Now I think we're there. Microsoft tells me that the mechanisms for Office subscriptions and Terminal Services won't be exactly the same, but over time they may be related.

Microsoft will stop offering discounts on Microsoft 365 and other software for enterprise clients starting November 1.

For Microsoft resellers that had been fearing Microsoft would drop the bottom out of the hosted-services business with its Microsoft Online services offerings, their nightmares were realized on ...

NCE subscriptions affect organization signing up to use Microsoft services such as Dynamics 365, Microsoft 365 and the Power Platform (Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, etc.).

Reacting to the latest pricing updates, IT firm SCC said Microsoft’s Online Services pricing update replaces volume-based ...

But beyond that, the specific set of software and services included with each M365 plan varies wildly. Since it’s sold as a subscription, Microsoft 365 incurs monthly or annual fees for each user.

No Microsoft 365 services cutoff is planned for that 2023 date. I apologize to readers on the lack of clarity, which I ascribe to Microsoft's communications over the years.

The big picture: Windows is no longer what motivates Microsoft's vision for the software-driven world. Instead, it's become a simple vehicle for selling subscriptions to the company's services ...

In the past several years, Microsoft has been repurposing its range of software into subscription services. The software had long sold primarily as a one-time purchase when a new edition arrived ...

Subscriptions are Microsoft’s new religion. If Microsoft can get enterprises (and you!) to budget in its services alongside the water bill, car maintenance, and groceries, it wins steady income.

Microsoft’s subscription services are key to the company’s overall gaming efforts. The software giant has just announced plans to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion in a move that ...

Yusuf Mehdi, the corporate vice president of the Windows and Devices Group at Microsoft, said cloud providers would now be able to offer three premier Microsoft services on a subscription basis ...