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Microsoft Licensing in Transition

Implications for Cost, Contracts and Renewals

 

Ideal for: Procurement teams, category managers, IT budget holders
When: Thursday 12 February 2026 at 2pm GMT

Microsoft’s commercial model is entering one of its most unsettled periods in decades.

  • Volume discount bands have been removed.
  • Pricing is fragmenting by product, component and region.
  • Some costs are rising sharply, others are quietly coming down.
  • Enterprise Agreements are evolving and for some organisations, disappearing altogether.

The result?

A pricing and licensing landscape that’s increasingly hard to predict, even for experienced Microsoft customers.
 
As organisations head toward 2026 renewals, many are struggling to answer the only questions that really matter:


What are we paying today, and what does Microsoft expect us to pay next time?
 
In this webinar, Gareth Redshaw draws on over 20 years of Microsoft licensing experience to cut through the noise and explain what’s really going on behind the changes and why they represent one of the most significant shifts in Microsoft’s commercial strategy in a generation.
 
This session will explore:

  • What’s driving Microsoft’s latest pricing adjustments and programmatic discount removals
  • How product-level price increases, regional changes and component pricing are reshaping budgets
  • What Microsoft’s evolving go-to-market strategy tells us about future negotiation leverage
  • Why these changes reflect Microsoft’s growing confidence and how they increase customer lock-in
  • What organisations should be doing now to prepare for 2026 renewals and beyond

This webinar is designed for organisations that want clarity and control at a time when Microsoft licensing feels increasingly messy and where getting the next renewal wrong could lock in higher costs for years to come.

 

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Meet your guru

Gareth Redshaw (200 x 200 px)-1

Gareth Redshaw

Senior Director of Microsoft Optimization and Negotiation consulting at Livingstone

Gareth has been involved IT commercial negotiations for over 20 years and has pivoted from vendor-specific sales roles to developing and executing negotiations for some of the world’s most recognisable brands covering global banking, retailors, technology giants, manufacturers, energy and large public sector departments amongst others.

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