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Has there been any update to the number of licenses required for Copilot for Microsoft 365?
as of now minimum 300 Licenses. For SMB we may need to wait couple of months.
And to add to this, you also need 500 E3 or E5 licenses.
Microsoft will lower the requirements as soon as there's enough resources to go around, main issue is the demand outstrips the supply and the connected cost to this makes it so that they need to prioritize clients that can cover those costs of the hardware and computing. There for it's 300 licenses
As a small business with 250 users should I be moving off current Business Premuim & Standard licensing and be moving towards E3 and E5 to be eligible for Copilot when they reduce the 300 threshold?
The requirement will become lower, we just don't know when but I'm guess and hopping within the year. They are working hard at it but there's is a bottleneck in the amount of Hardware and space to install the additional hardware required to run Copilot/AzureAI. So for example Microsoft is building a lot of new data centers just for this.
My guess the next requirement jump will be 250 E3/E5 and 50 Copilot licenses.
NicolasKheirallah wrote:And to add to this, you also need 500 E3 or E5 licenses.
500 E3/E5 AND 300 Copilot licenses? Sounds like we will never be eligible then.
