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This page provides the announcements for Microsoft Partner Center for June 2026.
Introducing Azure Linux—now available in public preview
Deliver trusted solutions on a Linux platform built for Azure.
- Date: June 2, 2026
- Workspace: General
- Impacted audience: Software development companies, global systems integrators (GSIs), systems integrators (SIs), indirect resellers.
Azure Linux is a Microsoft-built, cloud-optimized Linux distribution designed specifically for Azure—delivering a secure, consistent, and cost-efficient foundation across virtual machines (VMs), containers, and cloud-native workloads. Built with a hardened, secure-by-default architecture and a Microsoft-managed supply chain, Azure Linux helps partners reduce risk, simplify compliance, and deliver trusted solutions to customers.
With Azure Linux, partners can:
- Lower total cost of ownership by eliminating operating system (OS) licensing overhead while maintaining enterprise-grade support.
- Strengthen security by default with a hardened OS, secure supply chain, and predictable updates.
- Optimize performance for Azure with faster boot times, improved networking, and infrastructure-level tuning.
- Standardize environments across VMs, containers, and managed services to reduce operational complexity.
- Build and scale cloud-native and AI workloads on a lightweight, high-performance platform.
- Purpose-built for Azure, Azure Linux empowers partners to standardize on a single, enterprise-grade Linux platform, reducing fragmentation, increasing consistency, and accelerating deployment of modern applications across customer environment.
More Secure Boot certificate check capabilities are planned for future release.
Next steps
Now available in public preview, Azure Linux gives partners a powerful new way to streamline operations, drive efficiency, and unlock greater value from their Azure-based solutions. Register customers for public preview today.
New Microsoft 365 Business with Copilot SKUs available July 1
Simplify AI selling and scale SMB growth with Microsoft 365 Business with Copilot.
- Announcement date: June 1, 2026
- Workspace: General
- Impacted audience: Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners, partners selling Microsoft 365 Business to small and medium-sized businesses
Details
Drive faster AI adoption without the friction of promo cycles. Starting July 1, 2026, Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot and Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot become permanent SKUs, giving you a predictable, always-on way to accelerate Frontier Transformation for small and medium-sized business (SMB) customers.
This shift removes the friction of selling Copilot as an add-on or as a short-term promotional offer. AI is now embedded in the core productivity experience your customers already use, helping you position higher-value offers from day one and accelerate time to value.
What’s changing:
- Promotional offers for Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot and Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot are transitioning into permanent subscriptions, with updated list pricing of 23.50 USD and 32 USD per user per month, respectively. New SKUs are available July 1, with price list preview starting June 1 in Partner Center.
- New promo - Microsoft 365 Business Basic + Microsoft 365 Copilot Business: 21 USD per user per month after a 25% off promo, which runs through December 31, 2026. There's no license/user minimum (1 - 300 licenses/users, annual subscription with annual billing).
- Extended promo - Microsoft 365 Copilot Business remains available as a standalone offering at 18 USD per user per month after 15% promo, now extended through December 31, 2026. There's no license/user minimum (1 - 300 licenses/users, annual subscription with annual billing).
What this means for your business:
- Stronger deal value: Lead with bundled AI to increase attach and grow deal size
- Faster renewals: Turn every Business Standard and Premium renewal into a built-in Copilot conversation
- Predictable economics: Stable pricing lets you invest confidently in training, services, and go-to-market
This is your opportunity to make AI the default in every SMB engagement, driving larger opportunities across new customer acquisition, upsell, and renewal.
What to do next:
- Plan your launch-day activation. Download the Microsoft 365 Business with Copilot launch kit and prepare customer emails, social posts, and campaigns so your messaging is ready on day one
- Re-point your acquisition motion. Update your website, quotes, proposals, and outbound campaigns. Lead your default SMB offers with Business Standard with Copilot and Business Premium with Copilot
- Refresh your renewals motion. Identify Business Standard and Business Premium customers renewing in FY27 Q1 and build a Copilot upgrade plan for each account, anchored in durable pricing
- Align your teams. Ensure sales, marketing, and support teams understand the new: SKUs, scope (Standard and Premium only), durable pricing model, and extended Copilot Business and Purview promotions through December 2026, so they deliver a consistent message
Next steps
Check out the blog to learn more about this exciting opportunity.
Minor pricing precision updates for select Microsoft 365 and Office 365 SKUs in EEA currencies
- Announcement date: June 1, 2026
- Workspace: General
- Impacted audience: Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) authorized partners
Details
Effective July 1, select Microsoft 365 and Office 365 SKUs might reflect small price changes, such as a few cents, due to an update in pricing precision required for EU settlement compliance. This change applies to MCA-E, CSP, and buy-online SKUs in EEA currencies.
Note
This change is separate from the 2026 Microsoft 365 pricing and packaging update and does not represent a new product price increase.
| EUR | EUR | DKK | DKK | NOK | NOK | SEK | SEK | CHF | CHF | |
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| MF1 | € 2.60 | € 2.16 | 19.40 kr. | 16.16 kr. | 30.50 kr. | 25.41 kr. | 28.68 kr. | 23.89 kr. | CHF 2.43 | CHF 2.02 |
| MF3 | € 8.66 | € 7.73 | 64.67 kr. | 57.74 kr. | 101.65 kr. | 90.77 kr. | 95.59 kr. | 85.35 kr. | CHF 8.10 | CHF 7.23 |
| Business Basic |
€ 6.07 | € 4.67 | 45.27 kr. | 34.92 kr. | 71.16 kr. | 54.89 kr. | 66.91 kr. | 51.61 kr. | CHF 5.67 | CHF 4.37 |
| Business Standard |
€ 12.13 | € 9.34 | 90.54 kr. | 69.77 kr. | 142.31 kr. | 109.68 kr. | 133.82 kr. | 103.13 kr. | CHF 11.34 | CHF 8.73 |
| Business Premium |
€ 19.06 | € 16.28 | 142.27 kr. | 121.51 kr. | 223.63 kr. | 191.00 kr. | 210.29 kr. | 179.60 kr. | CHF 17.82 | CHF 15.21 |
| OE1 | € 8.66 | € 5.88 | 64.67 kr. | 43.91 kr. | 101.65 kr. | 69.02 kr. | 95.59 kr. | 64.90 kr. | CHF 8.10 | CHF 5.49 |
| OE3 | € 26.27 | € 18.85 | 195.65 kr. | 140.35 kr. | 305.29 kr. | 218.37 kr. | 289.81 kr. | 208.08 kr. | CHF 24.56 | CHF 17.63 |
| OE5 | € 41.42 | € 34.01 | 308.53 kr. | 253.24 kr. | 481.41 kr. | 394.48 kr. | 457.00 kr. | 375.26 kr. | CHF 38.72 | CHF 31.80 |
| ME3 | € 37.78 | € 30.36 | 281.97 kr. | 226.68 kr. | 442.03 kr. | 355.12 kr. | 416.77 kr. | 335.04 kr. | CHF 35.32 | CHF 28.38 |
| ME5 | € 58.13 | € 50.71 | 433.80 kr. | 378.50 kr. | 680.04 kr. | 593.13 kr. | 641.18 kr. | 559.44 kr. | CHF 54.33 | CHF 47.40 |
| ME7 | € 91.92 | € 84.51 | 686.01 kr. | 630.71 kr. | 1,076.48 kr. | 989.57 kr. | 1,013.97 kr. | 932.23 kr. | CHF 85.92 | CHF 79.00 |
| Teams Enterprise |
€ 7.41 | -- | 55.29 kr. | -- | 86.91 kr. | -- | 81.73 kr. | -- | CHF 6.92 | -- |
Next steps
For more information, see EU settlement details.