Partners...Review the Microsoft Open Value Subscription for Volume Licensing!
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Microsoft Open Value Subscription is a comprehensive, subscription-based Volume Licensing program that enables you to offer customers the lowest up-front costs with flexibility to add and reduce the number of licenses at each anniversary. This program best suits small to midsize organizations that have an existing network of five to 250 desktop PCs, value a competitive pricing model, and need to comply with the latest technology. It includes Microsoft Software Assurance for Volume Licensing, our comprehensive maintenance program.
Program Details:
Market Segment
This program is available to your qualifying commercial and government customers.
License Type
The Open Value Subscription program offers nonperpetual (or subscription) licenses, which provide the right to use a particular licensed product until the end of the agreement term.
Products Included
Under the Open Value Subscription program, customers can acquire one of two defined software platforms or their individual platform components:
The desktop platform products must be standardized company-wide; customers must order licenses for all qualified devices that can run any of the desktop platform products they have chosen. The only devices that customers need not order licenses for are PCs that are used as servers, devices that contain an embedded operating system, such as thin clients and Pocket PCs, and devices that are used only for line-of-business applications, like a hotel management system.
All customers can acquire additional non-desktop platform products as specified in their license agreement.
Software Maintenance Options
Microsoft Software Assurance for Volume Licensing is a comprehensive maintenance offering that helps customers maximize the business value from their technology investments. Software Assurance benefits vary with each Volume Licensing program. In addition, server licenses come with benefits that are different from those for desktop licenses.
Software Assurance benefits for the Open Value Subscription program include New Version Rights, Spread Payments, Information Work Solution Services, Windows Vista Enterprise Upgrade, Training Vouchers, Microsoft E-Learning, Employee Purchase Program, Home Use Program, 24x7 Problem-Resolution Support, “Cold” Backups for Disaster Recovery, TechNet Subscriptions Through Software Assurance, and Extended Hotfix Support.
Software Assurance is included for every license acquired through the Open Value Subscription program at the time of license acquisition (license and Software Assurance pack) and can be used immediately throughout the term of the license agreement.
Licensing Offerings
The Open Value Subscription program offers license and Software Assurance packs and a license buy-out option at the end of the agreement term, which allows customers to turn nonperpetual licenses into perpetual licenses.
Online Services
Microsoft Online Services are offered through the Open Value Subscription program.
Pricing
Contact your Microsoft Authorized Distributor for pricing information.
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Initial Order. Customers must acquire a minimum of five desktop license and Software Assurance packs to enter the Open Value Subscription program. And the initial order must include at least one desktop platform product to distribute company-wide. Customers who acquire the complete Professional Desktop Platform or Small Business Desktop Platform are eligible for additional savings of approximately 37% off the estimated retail price of the license. In addition, the Open Value Subscription program offers an “up-to-date” discount of up to 50% off the first annual payment for estimated retail prices of existing desktop platform product licenses of the current (N) or previous (N-1) version. In EMEA, customers who order 250 or more license and Software Assurance packs through their initial orders receive a volume discount.
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Additional Orders. Subsequent orders can be as small as one license and Software Assurance pack, and can be either company-wide or non-company-wide. Each year on the agreement anniversary, the customer must count the number of qualified desktop PCs in the organization and issue an annual purchase order. If the number of qualified desktop PCs has risen or diminished, customers may adjust their desktop platform product license and Software Assurance packs so that they’re only paying for the licenses they need (“true up” or “true down”). Still, a minimum of five desktop PCs must be licensed. For additional products not included in the Professional Desktop Platform or Small Business Desktop Platform, customers may increase or decrease other product license and Software Assurance packs annually if the number of installations has changed, with no minimum required. Customers must place new orders for additional products when installing the software and putting it in use.
Licensing Fulfillment
One media kit is shipped at no charge with the initial order of every product through the Open Value Subscription program. Subsequent orders of the same product will not include a media kit. Media kits for new versions of each product released during the duration of the license agreement are automatically shipped to the customer. If customers wish to acquire additional media kits, or would like media kits for software products not in the initial order, they must acquire them separately, at an additional cost. Customers can also download software from the Microsoft Volume Licensing Services (MVLS) website.
Payment Options
Payment is spread annually, with one payment made each year.
Agreement Term
The Open Value Subscription program offers a three-year license agreement term that begins with each new initial order.
Agreement Renewal Options
At the end of the three-year Open Value Subscription program agreement, customers have the option to renew their subscription agreement for another three years; buy out their agreement and convert subscription licenses to perpetual licenses; or uninstall and stop using the software. The buyout option fee is approximately 1.75 times the annual fee and is due in full upon order. Customers who choose the buyout option can continue their Software Assurance benefits by starting a new Open Value program agreement for Software Assurance only, within 30 days of the expiration of the Open Value Subscription program agreement.