I think it's all messed up, just as usual.

I have a business entity registered, and $7/mo sounded like a good price, so I went to look up for a form where I can sign up, set up a subscription, pay the invoice and get a product key.

The CSP program seems to be this: https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-solution-provider but it seems that they don't directly sell it but do so through some resellers (and the whole page is dedicated to those).

I found this link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/buy that mentions Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and E5 ("coming Oct 2016" says something about how the page's up to date) but after clicking "find a license solution provider" I'm basically lost. Filters helped a little, but everyone there still wants to sell me all sorts of most enterprise cloud solutions (Azure stuff, SharePoint, telephony, whatever), but not those $7/mo licenses. (Or maybe I've just looked at all the wrong partners, I don't know). And of course they're still all-enterprise "call our sales for any details".

No surprise probably no one uses that for personal desktop.

Cheapest way to do it AFAIK is to setup a LTD as a software or tech type company and then apply for an Action Pack subscription at £250 per annum. You get pretty much every single Microsoft server product in a nicely bound binder as well as 10x Windows 10 Enterprise licenses.

There are a lot of caveats on the licensing terms but it's good value if you're a small tech company.

Not sure if it's worth the hassle of setting up a company IRL just to use a piece of software.

in the UK it takes 10 minutes online to open a company and if you don't do anything with it the only thing you need to do is add it on your annual tax return, with all fields as zero since you are not actually trading. It's almost zero effort.

> add it on your annual tax return

That's not doing nothing. That requires filling in a Self Assessment which most people aren't doing

You can setup a Office 365 tenant for yourself.

Then it's just a matter for finding a CSP(Cloud Solution Provider) that will sell(and bill) to you personally. There's not much profit on the this at low volume, so you might have to ask nicely.

The main problem is the volume in volume licensing agreement. You need to buy a lot of windows licenses. Not sure what the number is now, but it used to me mid double digits.

I believe it is five for Open License.

> (in Germany it costs 40-50€

Less, in most cities. Sometimes, free.