Microsoft’s launch of Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 is on May 12, with the main event happening in New york city!access 2010 at a discount price at access-download.com. Starting that day, business users will be able to get their hands on Microsoft’s latest version of its Office client and server products!microsoft access 2007 download provides a rich platform for developing database management solutions. (Consumers who want Office and/or Office Web Apps still will have to wait until Summer! )#)
My ZDNet colleague Ed Bott has posted a list of great ideas for individuals interested in getting Office 2010 as cheaply as (legally) possible! But what if you’re a business user covered by a volume licensing contract? Exactly what do you expect, price-wise, with Office 2010?
The researchers over at Directions on Microsoft have done quite a bit of price analysis on this front! They’ve found that volume licensees should be ready to pay the same or maybe more for Office 2010 than they did for Office 2007!microsoft access 2010 maintains all the power of previous versions. In the cases where the price is higher, Microsoft has added more features, Directions on Microsoft noted!
I asked Microsoft whether the company was holding pricing steady and/or increasing it for its volume permission customers and a spokesperson said: “We do not discuss pricing for our enterprise solutions because of the flexibility constructed into our Volume Licensing (VL) model! ”
Remember, though: Customers who buy through Microsoft’s Open and select permission plans don’t typically have a lot of fighting power! If you’re under 750 seats, you probably have even less bargaining power! Plus, if you do manage to negotiate a 5 percent or 10 percent discount after the price rises a whole lot, you’re still paying the same as last year — or more, if you also was able to negotiate a comparable discount last year!
“We’ve found that Microsoft generally appears to be holding the line on Office price — maybe due to the competition from people like Google Apps, maybe the economy, maybe both! I think everyone would agree that this isn’t a good time to be raising prices, ” said Directions on Microsoft expert Robert DeGroot!
“So while the price of the Pro Plus suite moved up, more components have been added and it represents the same discount — 65% — from (total out of all the individual components) that Office 2007 Pro Plus does! The deal with Office Standard is actually drastically improved — more components, same price! ”
In addition, according to Directions on Microsoft, Microsoft has actually dropped prices on most of the individual components in its Office 2010 suite (Word, Surpass, PowerPoint, OneNote, etc. )#)!
