Effective July 2022, the Microsoft Home Use Program is renamed to the Workplace Discount Program. There are no changes to the offers that are available to eligible organizations. Any previously purchased discounted products are not affected by the change in the program name. The
Microsoft 365 F3, Office 365 F1/F3: New device screen size limitations Starting from August 1, 2022, the device screen size limitations for Frontline Workers have changed. Previously, Microsoft Office 365 F3 and Microsoft 365 F1/F3 licenses could only be assigned to users who used a primary work device with
Effective second half of 2025, the new version of Microsoft Exchange Server will be released. Until that time, Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 will remain the current version of Exchange Server. Microsoft initially planned on releasing the next version of Exchange Server in the second
Effective August 31, 2023, Microsoft Kaizala retires. This is a phone number-based, simple and secure work management and mobile messaging app for organizations. There are two versions of Microsoft Kaizala available – the free Microsoft Kaizala App and Microsoft Kaizala Pro, which both retire.
Effective July 11, 2022, Microsoft Windows Autopatch is generally available. This cloud service automates updates for Windows, Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise, Edge and Teams. The goal of Windows Autopatch is to deliver software updates to registered devices. The service frees up IT and
Effective January 10, 2023, Microsoft Windows 8.1 reaches its end of support. After that date, if you’re running Microsoft 365, you’ll no longer receive updates for the Office apps; this includes feature, security, and other quality updates. Microsoft 365 Apps is no longer supported
Effective July 20, 2022, Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure is available. First presented at Microsoft Inspire, Oracle Database Service for Microsoft Azure is an Oracle-managed service for Azure customers to easily provision, access, and operate enterprise-grade Oracle Database services in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Effective July 11, 2022, sovereign cloud regions of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure were introduced for the European Union. Both private companies and public sector organizations across the EU will be able to use these new OCI sovereign cloud regions to host data and applications that
Effective August 4, 2022, the following price adjustments to VMware products take place: A 10% price increase for perpetual licensed Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software (VMware vSphere, vSAN, NSX, vRealize) and related bundles/packages that include these offerings. Price changes to reflect currency exchange rates