Microsoft to hike 'Microsoft 365' pricing in 2022 citing 'increased value'
Microsoft last week announced plans to increase commercial pricing for its flagship Microsoft 365 productivity suite, with the company calling it the first "substantive" pricing update since the package launched in 2011.
Announced in a blog post, the new price structure only applies to commercial subscriptions, with cheaper plans seeing the biggest jumps.
From March 1, 2022, Microsoft's Office 365 E1 will be priced at $10 per user per month, up 25% from $8, while Office 365 E3 gets a 13% price bump from $20 to $23 per user. The top-tier Office 365 E5 moves from $35 to $38, a 9% increase.
Microsoft 365 bundles, which include Office apps and other software like email, social, work management and more, are also seeing price hikes, with Microsoft 365 Business Basic moving from $5 to $6 per user per month. Microsoft 365 Business Premium jumps from $20 to $22 per users and Microsoft 365 E3 moves from $32 to $36.
"This updated pricing reflects the increased value we have delivered to our customers over the past 10 years," the company said.
According to Microsoft, the price increases will see a global rollout with local market adjustments for certain regions.
In its announcement, Microsoft touted improvements to Microsoft 365, previously branded as Office 365, which include advancements in communications and collaboration, security and compliance, and AI and automation. More than 300 million paid users take advantage of the productivity suites, according to Microsoft.
The company took the opportunity to announce new unlimited dial-in capabilities for Microsoft Teams meetings across our enterprise, business, frontline, and government suites, a feature that will roll out over the next few months.
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Announced in a blog post, the new price structure only applies to commercial subscriptions, with cheaper plans seeing the biggest jumps.
From March 1, 2022, Microsoft's Office 365 E1 will be priced at $10 per user per month, up 25% from $8, while Office 365 E3 gets a 13% price bump from $20 to $23 per user. The top-tier Office 365 E5 moves from $35 to $38, a 9% increase.
Microsoft 365 bundles, which include Office apps and other software like email, social, work management and more, are also seeing price hikes, with Microsoft 365 Business Basic moving from $5 to $6 per user per month. Microsoft 365 Business Premium jumps from $20 to $22 per users and Microsoft 365 E3 moves from $32 to $36.
"This updated pricing reflects the increased value we have delivered to our customers over the past 10 years," the company said.
According to Microsoft, the price increases will see a global rollout with local market adjustments for certain regions.
In its announcement, Microsoft touted improvements to Microsoft 365, previously branded as Office 365, which include advancements in communications and collaboration, security and compliance, and AI and automation. More than 300 million paid users take advantage of the productivity suites, according to Microsoft.
The company took the opportunity to announce new unlimited dial-in capabilities for Microsoft Teams meetings across our enterprise, business, frontline, and government suites, a feature that will roll out over the next few months.
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That don't work together, have vast arrays of settings in multiple versions of the admin interfaces each not containing all the settings. Settings that do part of the job but don't always relate to the settings for the other part of the job.
The whole product is just a means to get you sign up to a partner who has paid them lots in training to workout how it all fits together into the product they promise.
Yes should have gone with Google for business (important decision marker couldn't live without outlook and word) but there is room for some more competition to improve the offer. Apple seriously needs to compete in this space.
As for outlook, for something as simple as an email client, it trounces competitors. Apple’s iOS Mail is toy in comparison.
behavioural modification? www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/microsoft-outlook-will-stop-you-sending-tone-deaf-emails/ar-AANuxkL
A while back, my office shortcuts wouldn’t persist in my taskbar after a reboot. It took six weeks of automatic updates to resolve that, Just crazy, random things.
So I don’t miss Office after-hours. This weekend my SO asked me to scan and enlarge a set of tiny device instructions to fit on a letter-sized hard copy, and Pages was MUCH less fiddly than Word ever has been.
Office 365 Apps suck, too. Several of my partners will routinely use Google docs simply because they’re better and easier to use. And don’t even get me started on Teams…
The reason Microsoft continues its dominance is because it’s a virtual monopoly in the business market, not because it’s a quality product.
This one is more painful, though, as I only use the apps a few times per year currently, so it's a lot of money for the actual usefulness to me. My wife uses them a bit more often, though, so maybe overall we're slightly justified in keeping it (I hope).