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Microsoft's Office 365 Add-ons muddy licensing and make customers pay twice

2013-08-12 23:06:42| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft has kicked off licensing add-ons that let enterprises add Office 365 subscriptions atop existing volume license agreements, touting the new options as a more flexible, simpler way for businesses to move to a rent-not-buy model. Flexible: Maybe. Simpler? Hardly. Independent analysts scoffed at any notion of Microsoft's licensing becoming easier to understand, with one saying that the Redmond, Wash. company's practices have become so Byzantine it's "getting ridiculous."

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