Reasons to Transition to Select Plus

With July 1, 2011, rapidly approaching, customers will need to decide whether to renew existing Select license agreements, implement a new Select Plus license agreement, or both. Although touted as a simplified license offering, Select Plus can be more restrictive in some areas than the previous Select License agreement, but it also offers some clear advantages.

What Are Select and Select Plus?

Under both Select programs, customers license products at discount pricing based on the volume of licenses purchased per product pool. Microsoft categorizes products into three product pools: Systems (Windows Upgrade, for example), Applications (Office, for example), and Servers (Server licenses and Client Access License [CAL] suites, for example). Microsoft assigns each product a point value and a product pool. The price level for each pool is based on the customer’s accumulated points. The customer receives master copies of the software and may deploy and use as many copies as necessary during the term of the agreement, as long as the customer places monthly license orders for those copies.