ICYMI: New Partner Blog | Updated partner benefits

This guide is from January 2025 (also stated in the file name). The August 2024 and December 2024 guides do not have the new 2025 SKUs.

If the new SKUS were announced in Aug 2024, then they should either have been included in Dec 2024 renewal, or we would have waited a month if the Effective date of 22 Jan 2025 was announced way back in Aug 2024. 

Microsoft has an opportunity to do right by its loyal partners, and remove the artificial disparity in the benefit program.

Hi Jill,

These new items were announced in January 2025, and the document you provided is the January 2025 version, as the attached filename indicates.

The December 2024 version of the guide does not have the new items (please see screenshot below), nor does the August 2024 guide (please see screenshot below). 

Also, if the new items were inclusive as of August 2024, then they should have been included in our December 2024 renewal. Also, in the December guide (or prior), had there been any indication that new items are effective January 22, we (and many other partners) would have waited to purchase.

The January 2025 guide specifies a top-off because they are a new addition in 2025. We are kindly requesting that all 6 items be topped out, not just 2 items, out of simple fairness. We, having bought in December 2024, are paying for 11 months of a lesser benefit than a partner buying in January 2025 for the same program.

I appreciate your consideration.
thank you and kind regards.