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Enterprise Subscription Agreement

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Kind
Enterprise agreement
Term
Minimum three-year period (EA page, which describes the subscription option inside that agreement). Access only for the agreement’s term (industries page, government EA subscription option).
Aliases
EAS
Definition
Named on the Enterprise Agreement page as the EA subscription option and in the Software Assurance getting-started table as Enterprise Subscription Agreement. The Enterprise Agreement includes a subscription option that lowers initial licensing costs because you subscribe to the rights to use Microsoft products and services instead of owning them. The subscription option also enables you to increase or decrease subscription counts on an annual basis.
Commercial rules
Software Assurance getting-started table: SA Included; 500 or more users or devices (same row as Enterprise Agreement). Lower initial licensing costs because rights are subscribed rather than owned; annual increase or decrease of subscription counts. No seat floor other than the 500 printed on the EA and SA pages is published.
Applies to
Microsoft software and cloud services licensed under the Enterprise Agreement subscription option as named.
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