Purchase services

Even if you generally purchase your licenses through a CSP partner or reseller, Microsoft will still offer you the chance to buy products directly from them on this site.

Believe us when we say that this creates no end of opportunities for confusion.

Avoid doing this. If your company's buying through a distributor or CSP, you are probably getting a better deal than what Microsoft offers directly. They've actually rigged the incentives so that distributors can offer a better deal than they do, because they'd rather that partners and distributors do the selling; Microsoft isn't famous for its keen interest in support and customer service for large numbers of individual consumers and small business users:

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