Microsoft Office license changes for non profit/charity

[mikeprice]

Hi all

 

Bit of a question in the hope that someone on here will have come across this before

 

I am doing some work for the local FoodBank supporting them with computery stuff and they have received an email from those nice people at Microsoft

 

The Microsoft Business Premium Grant will expire in a few months and they seem to want us to "transition" (i.e. move) to Microsoft Business Basic instead

or another Microsoft 365 "offer" for non-profits.

 

So - the question

Has anyone else come across this and is it a downgrade

and if it is a downgrade then what is affected

 

to be fair there are only about 5-6 people who actually use Office in the trust - most adminy and other stuff is done by the overarching central place 

thsi is just the local section that most just get and distribute the food and stuff

 

I just want to be sure that what Microsoft are saying is not going to have effects that I have not spotted

 

DIfficult to see what it is all about myself as I don;t really do much in terms of creating documents and other things so I won;t see the effects myself until it is switched over

 

 

thanks in advance

 

 

Mike

[Accura2k7]

Yes its a downgrade, they want you to pay for the applications, the cloud versions remain free. It is a bit of a problem as alot of charities, especially the smaller ones simply cant afford it.

[mikeprice]

10 minutes ago, Accura2k7 said:

Yes its a downgrade, they want you to pay for the applications, the cloud versions remain free. It is a bit of a problem as alot of charities, especially the smaller ones simply cant afford it.

Thanks - that is what I suspected