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Changes from Microsoft in October 2026

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October 2026

Pricing(2)

  1. Microsoft Defender and Purview Suite for Business Premium: 7.5% CSP discount from 1 October 2026

    PricingMicrosoft Defender Suite for Business Premium, Microsoft Purview Suite for Business Premium +1

    Resellers get it on customers with fewer than 300 seats. Each reseller decides how much of it reaches your price.

    • Microsoft Defender Suite for Business Premium
    • Microsoft Purview Suite for Business Premium
    #Microsoft’s announcement

  2. Microsoft 365 Copilot Business: pay-as-you-go billing switches on by default from 1 December 2026

    PricingMicrosoft 365 Copilot Business    Upcoming

    Upcoming

    Microsoft pushed the start for new CSP licences back from 2 November to 1 December 2026. The default cap is 4,000 Copilot Credits per user per month, and your admins can change it.

    • Microsoft 365 Copilot Business
    #Microsoft’s announcement

Licensing(1)

  1. Dynamics 365 Business Central: one 28+ licence key replaces per-version keys from 1 October 2026

    LicensingDynamics 365 Business Central

    On-premises versions 28 and later run on that single key. Download a refreshed key before every upgrade, because its download date decides which versions it unlocks.

    • Dynamics 365 Business Central
    #Microsoft’s announcement

  1. 21 more prices read from microsoft.com/de-ch on 4 October 2026, among them Dynamics 365 Business Central Essentials at CHF 64.80 (annual); no Microsoft price changed

    Microsoft list prices, 4 October 2026106 prices read — no price changed, 21 newly read, none removed.

    Newly read by ClearSource from microsoft.com/de-ch: Dynamics 365 Business Central Essentials · Dynamics 365 Business Central Premium · Dynamics 365 Business Central Team Members · Dynamics 365 For Sales Professional · Dynamics 365 for Sales Enterprise Edition · Dynamics 365 Sales Premium · Dynamics 365 Contact Center · Dynamics 365 Contact Center Digital · Dynamics 365 Contact Center Voice · Dynamics 365 for Supply Chain Management · Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management Premium · Dynamics 365 Project Operations · Power Automate Process · Common Data Service Database Capacity · Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 · Exchange Online Archiving for Exchange Online · Exchange Online Protection · Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Plan 1) · Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (Plan 2) · Microsoft Viva Glint · Viva Learning

    Source: microsoft.com/de-ch

  2. Microsoft 365 roadmap: 196 features planned for general availability this month: 71 launched, 3 rolling out, 122 in development

    Most features: Dynamics 365 Business Central (71) · Microsoft Copilot (Microsoft 365) (32) · Microsoft Purview (31) · Microsoft Teams (16) · Outlook (14)

    Open the Microsoft 365 roadmap

Source: Microsoft Partner Center announcements, October 2026

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ClearSource summarises Microsoft’s announcements in its own words and links each one to the original. Announcements that only concern Microsoft’s partners (partner programmes, tools, incentives) are left out. Prices are Microsoft’s public list prices for Switzerland in CHF, excl. VAT.