![]() Microsoft has communicated information about the whats, whens and whys of the coming hike to its partners, however. ![]() Microsoft officials - who declined to comment on the coming price change when I asked - have since removed that reference from the blog post. ![]() A May 28 Microsoft TechNet blog partner blog post entitled "Three reasons why now is a good time to upgrade your customers to Windows Server 2012 R2" made mention of the coming 13 percent price hike for Windows Server on-premises User CALs. Microsoft has notified its reseller partners of the coming price hike, and will make the new pricing known publicly when it publishes it price list preview on July 1. With a Device CAL, they purchase a CAL for every device that accesses a server, regardless of the number of users who use that device to access the server. With the User CAL, Microsoft customers buy a CAL for every user who accesses the server to use services such as file storage or printing, regardless of the number of devices they use for that access. The prices of Device CALs also won't change, according to the company. The affected CALs are for on-premises, not cloud, products. As of August 1, Microsoft will raise the prices of a number of its User client-access licenses (CALs) by 13 percent.
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