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The Rising Cost of Microsoft 365 Storage October 28, 2026 Spending is becoming less predictable as storage consumption triggers separate charges across overages, backup, archive,...more Microsoft 365 AI Governance Features: A Dog’s Breakfast Updated: October 28, 2026 Aspects of AI governance are addressed by many features across Microsoft 365’s compliance, identity, security,...more Dynamics 365 Commerce Adds Lower-Cost Import Options October 23, 2026 New Commerce licensing options (called Headless) can lower the cost of processing and importing transactions....more Azure: Know Reservations Updated: October 19, 2026 Azure reservations allow customers to reduce Azure costs in exchange for a one- or three-year...more Risks Increase Dramatically with Employees Using Shadow AI October 17, 2026 AI tools based on large language models are increasingly used by staff as a quick...more How to Apply Azure Reservations and Savings Plans Effectively to Compute Workloads Updated: October 14, 2026 Azure compute is typically the single largest cost category of resources that an organization will...more Transitioning Visual Studio from an EA to an MCA October 12, 2026 Midsize customers are being forced out of Enterprise Agreements and steered toward Microsoft Customer Agreements...more Microsoft 365 Government: What’s in the Box? Updated: September 21, 2026 Microsoft 365 Government offers U.S. governmental organizations more regulatory compliance capabilities than Microsoft 365 commercial...more Broadcom Forces More Changes to Azure VMware Service September 17, 2026 License-included Azure VMware Solution reserved instances will be retired in Aug. 2027, regardless of the...more Planner Subscription Strategy for Project Online Retirement September 11, 2026 Project Online was retired effective Oct. 1, 2026, leaving Planner as Microsoft’s sole hosted project...more The Hidden Costs of M365 Copilot September 10, 2026 Microsoft injected unpredictable consumption costs into user subscription licensing with Copilot Cowork, and there’s more...more Demystifying Microsoft’s Copilots Updated: September 4, 2026 Microsoft’s range of Copilots, initially broad and confusing, is narrowing, but remains convoluted. Copilots, like...more Protecting Power BI Premium Pricing During the Move to Fabric August 31, 2026 Power BI Premium P customers must move to Fabric F SKUs at the end of...more Windows Server Licensing Scenarios Updated: August 23, 2026 The reasons for choosing one edition of Windows Server over another have fundamentally changed over...more Cut Service Consumption Costs with Pre-Purchase Plans August 7, 2026 There are now four Pre-Purchase Plans that provide savings over PAYG on consumption-based services, such...more Azure SQL Database DTUs: There’s a Better Way July 1, 2026 The Azure SQL Database DTU model bundles compute, memory, and storage that are easy to...more

Available Azure Reservations Updated: October 15, 2026 Microsoft’s Units for Metered AI Consumption Costs September 14, 2026 Frontline Worker Online Suite Packaging August 14, 2026 Microsoft 365 Enterprise Suite Packaging August 14, 2026 Office 365 Enterprise suites packaging August 14, 2026 Office 365 and Microsoft 365 Comparison August 14, 2026 Per Core License Model Flowchart May 1, 2026 Teams-related Product Packaging April 23, 2026 CALs Included with Online Services Suites April 17, 2026 CAL Suite Contents April 17, 2026 External User Qualification Requirements Updated: April 17, 2026 Enterprise Agreement Contract Stack April 17, 2026 Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise Packaging April 17, 2026 Office and Windows Supported Combinations April 17, 2026 Microsoft 365 Extensions April 16, 2026 Microsoft 365 Copilot Packaging April 16, 2026

  Licensing Reference Azure Hybrid Benefit for Windows Server A collection of SA (Software Assurance) benefits specific to core licenses for Windows Server; the...more   Licensing Reference Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server A SA (Software Assurance) benefit specific to core licenses for SQL Server that provides a...more   Licensing Reference Azure Hybrid Benefit Allows customers to apply certain on-premises software licenses they already own, such as core licenses...more   Licensing Reference Azure Hybrid Benefit for Linux A procedure that allows Red Hat and SUSE Linux customers to apply subscription licenses acquired...more   Licensing Reference Agent 365 Agent 365 provides a central registry of most types of AI agents; a single control...more   Licensing Reference Copilot Credits Copilot Credits are Microsoft’s usage-based consumption unit for many Microsoft Copilot and agent scenarios.   Licensing Reference GitHub AI Credits GitHub AI Credits are a consumption unit used for GitHub Copilot usage charges.   Licensing Reference Dynamics 365 Services Packaging Illustration + caption outlines the main Dynamics 365 Services-branded subscription offerings, the technical capabilities they...more   Licensing Reference GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot is a natural language-based assistant AI tool that can generate code for developers...more   Licensing Reference Dynamics 365 Sustainability An environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data management offering that records, calculates, and reports on...more   Licensing Reference Planner Planner is a task and project management tool included in Microsoft 365 and Office 365...more   Licensing Reference Dynamics 365 Services Timeline Outlines major naming, packaging, and other licensing-related changes to Dynamics 365 Services.   Licensing Reference Microsoft Defender for Office 365 An online service that augments the Exchange Online Protection (EOP) service to add protection against...more   Licensing Reference Office 365 Cloud App Security Name for the subset of Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps features bundled with Office 365...more   Licensing Reference Microsoft Defender for Endpoint An online service and accompanying client-side agent that helps security analysts mitigate, detect, investigate, and...more   Licensing Reference Microsoft Defender for Identity Online service that detects and identifies suspicious user and device activity within an organization’s Active...more

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