Companies are likely to face higher IT costs.
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Dusseldorf IT managers will have to budget significantly more for Microsoft products in the future: The US group has announced significant price increases for corporate customers for several cloud services, for the second time in two years. Microsoft plans to adopt “uniform pricing” starting April 1, reflecting the exchange rate of each country’s currency to the US dollar, the announcement says.
As a result, the prices for products such as Office 365 will rise by eleven percent in the euro area. In addition, the group wants to adjust prices twice a year to exchange rate fluctuations. “We are conducting price harmonization that also affects Europe,” Microsoft said in a statement. Customers were informed in January.
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