Microsoft delays planned price increase for Office 365 for …

Microsoft’s first ‘substantive’ price increase for many Office 365 SKUs is still happening in March, but a couple of weeks later than announced for some of its resellers. Six months ago, in August 2021, Microsoft unveiled a coming “substantive” price increase for Office 365, due to take effect on March 1. But on February 28, Microsoft announced a delay in that increase for some of its reseller partners, creating a two-week grace period. On March 1, 2022, Microsoft was slated to increase prices globally for most of its commercial Office 365 and Microsoft 365 subscriptions. 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. Pricing for consumers, education and the highest-end Microsoft 365 E5 SKU will not increase at this time, officials said last year. Officials said the increases were the first noteworthy ones since Microsoft launched Office 365 more than a decade ago and would keep Microsoft in line with what its competitors (read, Google) were charging.