


Microsoft 365 Business Basic: going from $5 to $6 per user per month.Here are the new prices, effective March 1, 2022: Officials also said that Microsoft had added more than 1400 new features to its Office 365 subscriptions over the past decade. Some of these apps are included for no additional cost others, like the Power Platform family of products, require separate licenses and subscription fees. Officials said since the introduction of Microsoft 365 four years ago the company has added 24 apps to its Office 365/Microsoft 365 suites, including Teams, Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, Stream, Planner, Visio, OneDrive, Yammer and Whiteboard. In other cases, it is adjusting prices to reflect the considerable value added to the Office 365/Microsoft 365 suites over the past several years, they added. In some cases, Microsoft increases prices to match those of the competition (Read, Google), officials said. The increases will range from $12 per user per year more for Microsoft 365 Business Basic to $48 per user per year more for Microsoft 365 E3.
MS OFFICE PRICE UPDATE
Microsoft officials call the coming price increase "the first "substantive pricing update since we launched Office 365 a decade ago." (There have been some smaller price increases to the suites over the past 10 years.) Pricing for consumers, education and the highest-end Microsoft 365 E5 SKU will not increase at that time officials said today, August 19. On March 1, 2022, Microsoft will be increasing prices globally for most of its commercial Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
