{"id":47305,"date":"2022-06-29T06:47:10","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/microsoft-postpones-shift-to-new-commerce-experience-subscriptions\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T06:47:10","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T06:47:10","slug":"microsoft-postpones-shift-to-new-commerce-experience-subscriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/microsoft-postpones-shift-to-new-commerce-experience-subscriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft postpones shift to New Commerce Experience subscriptions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Microsoft has indefinitely postponed the date on which its Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs) will be required to sell software and services licences on new terms.<\/p>\n

Those new terms are delivered under the banner of the New Commerce Experience (NCE). NCE is intended to make perpetual licences a thing of the past and prioritizes fixed-term subscriptions to cloudy products. Paying month-to-month is more expensive than signing up for longer-term deals under NCE, which also packs substantial price rises for many Microsoft products.<\/p>\n

Channel-centric analyst firm Canalys unsurprisingly rates NCE as better for Microsoft than for customers or partners.<\/p>\n

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It’s just taking us a little longer to onboard all of this community to make sure that they can transact<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Partners fears NCE because it can leave them on the hook if end user organisations don’t pay their bills<\/a>. CSPs would prefer Microsoft \u2013 which rakes in $192 billion annual revenue \u2013 wear the risk of that happening, rather than the smaller businesses in the channel.<\/p>\n

Microsoft didn’t make NCE deals immediately compulsory, instead setting a July 11 deadline after which existing deals could not automatically be renewed, and CSPs would instead be required to bring customers onto the NCE.<\/p>\n