Brexit has hit the pound pretty hard since June's EU referendum decision — we've temporarily lost Marmite and already had to shell out extra cash for the new iPhone.
Not one to miss out on the price-hiking fun, tech giant Microsoft has announced it will soon begin a major price hike in the UK.
Announcing the decision on Monday, the software giant said: "Effective January 1, 2017, we will be increasing British pound pricing to harmonize prices for enterprise software and cloud services within the EU/EFTA region.
"We periodically assess the impact of local pricing of our products and services to ensure there is reasonable alignment across the region and this change is an outcome of this assessment. These changes are similar to the recent harmonization adjustments to pricing in Norwegian krone and Swiss franc we made in April 2016."
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So while such a move will only affect business customers, those not shielded from the shrapnel of Brexit will experience a 13 percent hike in the cost of enterprise software and a 22 percent rise in the cost of cloud services.
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the British Cabinet Office told RT: "Where we are made aware of proposed price changes for a specific supplier we will work closely with that supplier to identify ways to mitigate any increases in price."
With the referendum episode far from finished, it wouldn't be a surprise if more companies began jumping on the bandwagon.
So yeah, thanks, Brexit.
