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Software Licensing Puzzle: Rising Costs and Premium Connectors

Name: Software Licensing Puzzle: Rising Costs and Premium Connectors
Uploaded: 2025-10-24T01:00:41+00:00
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Microsoft is eliminating price levels for certain M365 subscription plans in fiscal year 2026, forcing companies to rethink budgeting and licensing…

24 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Microsoft is eliminating price levels for certain M365 subscription plans in fiscal year 2026, forcing companies to rethink budgeting and licensing compliance. IT and finance leaders need to prepare now for how this shift will affect procurement and costs.

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So this is a really important, important change that's going on. So today's session, we are going to really be focusing on Microsoft's 2026. Made an announcement a few weeks back that they were eliminating price levels for I'm going to put air quotes up here, some Microsoft 365 subscriptions. And so that is going to be driving a lot of change and a lot of challenges for organizations. And we're going to get into some details on that here in a couple of minutes. But a couple of things I'm going to also focus on, not just what the impact of that is and how Microsoft is going to market in 2026. So when I say 2026, it is 26 for them. Their fiscal year, if you're not aware, is July. So they are already into fiscal 2026.