Microsoft is increasing prices for on-premises Office making use of launch of one's next version, Office 2019, later in 2012, the company announced.

With new Microsoft pricing that starts Oct. 1, the commercial version of Office 2019 will rise by Ten % compared to the current pricing for on-premises Office.

The expense increase is applicable to Office client, Client Access License (Enterprise and Core) and server products, Microsoft said using a blog post. This company did not mention any plans to find an Office 365 price hike.

The pricing changes "provide one other incentive for patrons to move from legacy purchasing and distribution mechanisms to newer licenses and technologies," said Reed Wiedower, CTO of Washington, D.C.-based New Signature, within a email to CRN.

"Many very own customers have formerly, in bulk, moved away from the older MSI based versions of office to click-to-run, as a way to ease their administrative burden," he said. "That also enables firms to make Intune as an app deployment mechanism instead of more traditional approach."

Another large technology change made in concert with such licensing choices could be the new MSIX installer format, "which brings another reason for those to go back and re-package older apps on the new format for distribution," Wiedower said.

"The Ten percent cost increase certainly is going to be a activate the pants for purchasers who can quickly avoid the cloud - as well as our business is based upon helping customers migration to the cloud and survive in the cloud, we view it as uniformly positive," he was quoted saying.

Meanwhile, Microsoft also disclosed in its blog post that changes are coming by Oct. 1 for Windows 10 Enterprise users, at the same.

Firstly, Windows 10 Enterprise E3 will only consult with the per-user offer of Windows 10 for enterprise.

The per-device offer, meanwhile, will still only be sometimes referred to as Windows 10 Enterprise from October.

Additionally, after that, Windows 10 Enterprise (the per-device offer) may see an increase in price thus it costs similar to Windows 10 Enterprise E3, that is certainly $84 per user annually.

A Microsoft spokesperson said the lender is not specifying the size of the price increase in the per-device offer, or whether Office 365 along with the Microsoft 365 suite--which includes Office 365 and Windows 10--will can see a price embrace October.

Lastly, Microsoft announced it really is per-device offer for Windows 10 Enterprise E5 might be discontinued since Oct. 1.

"These changes will highlight the benefits of our pricing for any cloud-first world, assist us to move from program-centric to your customer-centric pricing structure, which will more consistency and transparency across our purchasing channels," Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft said during the blog post.