Office 365 prices to go up from 2022

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  • There are no changes to pricing for education and consumer products of Microsoft at this time
  • Microsoft is also rolling out unlimited dial-in capabilities for Microsoft Teams meetings across all suites in the next few months

Global software giant Microsoft has announced that it will raise the price of its Microsoft 365 and Office 365 suites from March 1, 2022.

Microsoft 365 Corporate Vice-President Jared Spataro said in a blog post that the changes in pricing would “apply globally with local market adjustments for certain regions.”

He added: “There are no changes to pricing for education and consumer products at this time.”

Spataro also said Microsoft was rolling out “unlimited dial-in capabilities for Microsoft Teams meetings across our enterprise, business, frontline, and government suites over the next few months.”

In the blog post, he said the prices of Microsoft 365 Business Basic would go from $5 to $6 per user, Microsoft 365 Business Premium would cost $22 rather than $20, and Office 365 E1 would be dearer from $8 to $10.

The price of Office 365 E3 would change from $20 to $23, that of Office 365 E5 would go from $35 to $38, and Microsoft 365 E3 pricing would go from $32 to $36.

A footnote explained that Office 365, when launched in June 2011, included Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Lync, Exchange, and InfoPath.

Since then, the apps under it have come to include Access, Bookings, Delve, Forms, GroupMe, Kaizala, Lens, Lists, OneDrive, OneNote Class Notebook, Planner, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Publisher, SharePoint, Staff Hub, Stream, Sway, Teams, To-Do, Visio, Whiteboard, and Yammer.

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