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New Microsoft 365 pricing live, some products up by 42% due to AI
- ninko 3mo agoMicrosoft is committed to delivering continuous innovation and value through Microsoft 365. Over the past several years, we’ve invested deeply in security, compliance, productivity, AI, and IT management— helping organizations stay productive, secure, and competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape. This change reflects the significant innovation delivered over the past several years and the added value customers will gain with new additions to the suites, including major advancements in AI (ex. Copilot Chat, Copilot Chat Analytics), security (ex. Microsoft Defender for Office P1), and IT management (ex. Intune Suite).
- jinxmeta 3mo agoso a long way of saying: we need to fund our AI.
- cyanydeez 3mo agoNow, instead of incremental UI changes, we can parade an infinite array of slop features to justify lifetime subscriptions by businesses, because, what are they going to do, learn something else?
- RetroTechie 3mo agoWar chest emptying, must raise taxes.
- diego_sandoval 3mo agoNo one who takes their job seriously uses Copilot anything.
- slimshade777 3mo agohey AI, your em dash is showing.
- ninko 3mo agoI pasted directly from MS's site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/2026-m365-packaging-pricing-updates-faq https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/2026-m365-pac... Sorry if my comment was not clear, but my commment has an em dash because MS used one, and they likely use Copilot to write the blog :D
- runarberg 3mo agoIt is customary to start a quoted paragraph (e. blockquote) with a greater then symbol (>) e.g.: > This is a quoted paragraph It is then expected that you share some insights or opinions on the paragraph you quoted. Just pasting a quote without any context nor markers makes it look you these are your own words.
- craftkiller 3mo agoYou worded that as if you speak for Microsoft, but your account is 2 days old and this is your first comment, which makes me suspect you are a karma-farming bot.
- ninko 3mo agoI pasted directly from MS's site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/2026-m365-packaging-pricing-updates-faq https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/2026-m365-pac... Sorry if my comment was not clear, but my commment has an em dash because MS used one, and they likely use Copilot to write the blog :D
- spacechild1 3mo agoThat quote is really funny because it reads like a parody. Next time just use quotation marks and add a link to the source.
- hulitu 3mo agoIt is a parody. Inovation, value, security - things which Microsoft strugles to deliver since 30 years.
- chairmansteve 3mo agoIf AI is so great, these price rises will pay for themselves many times over..... Have any HNer's experienced or observed any productivity increases, or even any utility increases from co pilot?
- bigbuppo 3mo agoWe've lost customers over the increased price.
- itchingsphynx 3mo agoProbably worse productivity because now I have to read paragraphs of emails that could have been sentences.
- jamesfinlayson 3mo agoHad a clueless business analyst get Copilot to write a bunch of stories for an epic, then when she had a meeting with me (and three other people!) to go through the stories I had to tell them that 90% of what they had done was wrong. If they'd come to me from the outset I could have told them the one story title and handful of acceptance criteria that was required but instead we wasted 5 person hours and whatever Copilot costs.
- netsharc 3mo agoWithout context it reads like you work in a publisher that publishes fiction...
- spacechild1 3mo agoI thought the same. Business lingo has really jumped the shark. "story" is already stupid enough, but "epic"? Seriously? :-D
- jamesfinlayson 3mo agoI assumed this was standard terminology for Jira? It's been the same for me at two completely different tech companies.
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- HDBaseT 3mo agoAny word on 'A' (Education) licenses? A1/A2/A3?
- meszmate 3mo agoIt makes no sense to use 365 anymore, there are so many other alternatives
- pjmlp 3mo agoNot if all parties require Office documents, and its collaboration features.