Microsoft is raising enterprise prices by almost a quarter as Brexit bites

MICROSOFT HAS become the latest company to announce large price hikes for UK customers in the wake of Brexit.

They communicated very recently that some of their products are going to increase by 22%, this is to counterbalance effects from fluctuation all caused by the decision to leave the European Union.

It was announced via the Microsoft TechNet blog, which has defined the step as “harmonising”, this has been seen to making it better than it actually is, the old saying adding insult to injury seems to be how this is viewed.

Microsoft’s Sergejs Chuajs said: “We periodically assess the impact of local pricing of our products and services to ensure there is reasonable alignment across the region and this change is an outcome of this assessment”

“These changes are similar to the recent harmonisation adjustments to pricing in Norwegian krone and Swiss franc we made in April 2016.”

Essentially the business software is going to rise by 13% with cloud pricing rising by 22% as mentioned earlier.

The good news is that existing orders and those with long-term contracts will not be effected by the increase in pricing during the subscription period.

Apparently there are no plans to change pricing for the consumer products, however we all know that more features in Windows 10 are confined to Enterprise editions only.

Furthermore, even when businesses find themselves in a place to migrate to another provider, it is often a large and expensive process to go through which might not be in the best interests of the user.

James Butler, CTO at Trustmarque explains, “Only the biggest customers will find themselves in a solid bargaining position. In general, organisations should just try to keep a check on their current cloud consumption to shore up their negotiation credentials.”

Microsoft is far from the first tech company to take post-Brexit evasive action, with HP, Dell and OnePlus among those hiking prices in the days after the vote.