Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 days ago
Bit of context:
As such, it is generously removing the ten licenses for Microsoft 365 Business Premium that it previously granted to non-profits. The replacement? “We are transitioning to provide up to 300 licenses of Microsoft 365 Business Basic and discounts of up to 75 percent on many Microsoft 365 offers to nonprofits.”
One could argue that 300 free licenses of Business basic is better than 10 free licenses of Business Premium, especially if the non-profit has more than 10 employees that need Microsoft Office.
A business premium nonprofit license is $5.50 per user per month, so to get it back for those 10 users it would cost them $660.
Business basic was $1 per user per month with the previous non-profit discount.
This means that any non-profit with 55 employees would be no worse off now, but any with more than 55 employees will be better off with the updated plan and discounts.
This hits nearly all my local community centers since they’re not massive. Each one I can think of has 10-30 employees.
I can see it being a decent move with the 75% discount on other products.
Start with the free basic and add on for the rest.
Business premium includes things like intune and defender for laptops. So doing a 75% off add-on wouldn’t break the bank.
fatalicus@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Yes, in the number of licenses they will be better off.
But without business premium the loose entra id P1, so lots of functionality will be lost there, and they will loose the windows license premium has, meaning they will either have to buy windows licenses or switch to Linux to be compliant on their devices.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 days ago
Entra for 10 people is unnecessary.
What windows license? The ones that every computer comes with already?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
It’s pretty convenient for an IT team to use a standard image with all their configs and whatnot, and that requires a new key.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 days ago
Somehow I don’t think any charities with less than 10 employees were doing that, so nothing changes.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
You sure?