Microsoft has just announced a new price list for its subscriptions to Office 365 and Microsoft 365. This increase will only concern professionals and salespeople, and not individuals.
While Netflix has just announced a new price increase, it is Microsoft’s turn to review the prices of its Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions around the world. This new price list will come into force on March 1, 2022. As the Redmond firm specifies, consumer offers, the education sector and the SKU E5 (the premium formula), will not be affected.
According to the American giant, this is the “first substantial price update since we launched Office 365 ten years ago ”. To justify this new price list, Microsoft recalls that it is more than 24 additional applications who joined its Office and Microsoft 365 suites over the past four years, including Microsoft Teams, Planner, Visio, OneDrive, Power Apps or Yammer and Whiteboard. In addition, the company states that it has added more than 1,400 new features in Office 365 since its launch ten years ago.
New prices for Office 365 and Microsoft 365
Let’s see in detail the new prices announced by Microsoft which will be in effect from March 1, 2022. Note that Microsoft has not yet communicated the prices for the French market. We will update this article as soon as we have this information:
- Microsoft 365 Business Basic: $ 6 per user and per month instead of 5 dollars
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium: $ 22 per user and per month instead of 20 dollars
- Office 365 E1: $ 10 per user and per month instead of 8 dollars
- Office 365 E3: $ 23 per user and per month instead of 20 dollars
- Office 365 E5: $ 38 per user and per month instead of 35 dollars
- Microsoft 365 E3: $ 36 per user and per month instead of 32 dollars
These price changes come as Microsoft has achieved record revenue growth this year, notably thanks to various cloud services like Office 365 and Microsoft 365. With a total of 300 million paying users worldwide, it is certain that these price increases will allow Microsoft to further increase its profits in 2022. As a reminder, Microsoft has just launched Windows 365, a cloud computing solution that allows access to Windows 11 since it was launched. any device.
Source: The Verge