upgrading upgrading upgrading....

My career to this point has been built on Microsoft's back; that is, without the big MS I wouldn't have a job, or a certification to renew, or clients to service. Nevertheless, I am frustrated with how MS seems to make it less and less simple and/or affordable to keep up with their technology. For example, I can't move from retail boxed Office suites to an Open License office suite. There is NO upgrade in the Open License program, outside of Software Assurance. So the SMB market that is always growing has no simple migration path into a manageable software infrastructure other than coughing up a lot of $$$.