Via its Learning Paths website, Microsoft is providing customers with a variety of resources providing an insight into the company's products and solutions. The latest area to come into focus on Learning Paths is Microsoft Financing. The software giant is offering an overview of its program designed to provide customers with loans and leasing options, but also details and information necessary to apply for financing. “Want to find out more about Microsoft Financing but don’t know where to start? This new Learning Path provides the training, tools and resources you and your partners need to offer Microsoft Financing to customers today,” revealed Hayley Rixon, Microsoft BI Business Development manager.

Essentially, Microsoft Financing will make it easier for customers to acquire the company's software products. Still, financing for purchasing Microsoft licenses and IT solutions is opened only to commercial customers in US, Canada, UK, Germany, Spain, Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland, Netherlands, Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil. At the same time, there is a minimum limit that loans have to reach in order for the Redmond company to consider a transaction. For the US that limit is $3,000, but other markets have different standards: Canada - $3,000 (CAD), United Kingdom - £1,000, Europe - €1,000, Switzerland - CHF 1,000, Australia: $3,000 (AU), and New Zealand: $3,000 (NZ).

“Microsoft Financing provides flexible loans and leasing options for your customers IT needs. Unlike traditional financing, Microsoft Financing will finance 100 percent of eligible Microsoft, third-party and ISV software, partner services, and hardware with no hidden costs,” reads the message on the Learning Path page for Microsoft Financing. “Microsoft Financing programs offer flexible options for businesses of all sizes. By introducing financing discussions early in the sales cycle you can move your customers’ focus from 'How will I pay for it?' to 'What do I need?'”