Today Microsoft is introducing changes to our offerings across our Microsoft 365 for Education suite that will place limits on storage and retire the Office A1 Plus program.
While the increase...
Updated Aug 01, 2023
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You aren't the only one asking this ollyrice
Unfortunately no one actually knows the answer. Just like most MS announcements there's lots of candy-floss like fluff but not enough detail or substance.
If only MicrosoftEducationTeam actually understood the difference between a school (k12 / primary / secondary) and a University. Universities are much more like a group of Enterprise scale businesses in terms of the numbers of staff and students and the diversity of what they get up to. Scientific and Research led universities will be the most impacted by this announcement.
Not only will it affect your annual license costs (because storage will now be added on), but if you happen to have a Premier support or Unified support agreement then the additional cost will also have a rolling effect on the costs for support too.
Did anyone at Microsoft ACTUALLY do the math? One suspects NOT!