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Microsoft 365 Business Premium grant is being discontinued
- Aug 13, 2025
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This is a real pity. I'm at a very small charity and we had just this year started using 3 users for writing our administration documents and sharing on Sharepoint and for meetings on Teams. We had been about to switch over our domain to Office 365 to use email but I'm glad we didn't as it does not look like a good idea to rely on these grants from Microsoft. We're not a big enough charity to justify spending on these while there are free alternatives available (though less convenient for sure!) so in our case this decision isn't going to earn Microsoft anything, so I'm kind of surprised they thought it worthwhile doing.
Remember that you can still gain access to the Office basic for no cost, but these are limited to working on the documents within a browser rather than the desktop applications. Still a very viable option for a startup NFP.