Programs for Academic Organizations and Third-Party Vendors

Academic Programs Overview

Open License for Academic
For academic institutions that want to pay-as-they-go. Customers can pay for licenses as they need them, and get maximum flexibility to grow with their organization’s increasing and changing business needs.

Online Subscription Program (MOSP)
Organizations with five or more desktop PCs can get easy access to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) services. Your customers can integrate services with Microsoft products that they have already licensed, rapidly deploy services, and manage their licenses online.

Select License for Academic
A transactional volume licensing program designed for midsize and large educational institutions with 250 or more desktop PCs. It is ideal for organizations with mixed software requirements and the ability to forecast license needs over a three-year period.

Select Plus for Academic
Offers automatic price savings based on purchase volume across the organization, the flexibility to acquire licenses as needed, a non-expiring agreement, and centralized license management.

Campus Agreement
A subscription-based licensing program designed to address the unique needs of higher educational institutions. The Campus Agreement comes with Microsoft® Software Assurance and helps keep technology up to speed, even on a limited budget. With the Campus Agreement customers can license a single department or the entire institution with the simplicity of counting employees one annual count.

School Agreement
A subscription-based volume licensing program designed for primary and secondary schools and districts that offer a flexible and affordable way to license the latest Microsoft technology. With the School Agreement, customers can license all of their computers with the simplicity of counting computers just once per year.

Partner Programs Overview

Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA)
Allows partners to license Microsoft products on a monthly basis to provide software services and hosted applications to their customers

SPLA Essentials is an entry-level option to the SPLA Program with a simplified agreement and basic hosting rights for small and mid-market hosters and Web developers, while SPLA offers additional program rights.

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) Royalty Licensing Program
A worldwide software licensing program that offers partners a convenient way to license Microsoft products and integrate them into software business applications.