
If you are a Microsoft customer on a month-to-month license payment plan, whether you know it or not, behind the scenes you are actually on an annual subscription model. If you are a Microsoft customer who prepays for your licensing a year at a time (annual prepay), then this price increase will not go into effect until your annual term renews on or after March 1 st of 2022. So, does this mean if you currently own any of these license plans that on March 1st, your pricing will go up automatically? Not exactly. March 1st, 2022 marks the official start date for the pricing increase on these specific Office 365 and M365 plans. Microsoft 365 E3 (up from $32 to $36 per user).Office 365 E5 (up from $35 to $38 per user).Office 365 E3 (up from $20 to $23 per user).Office 365 E1 (up from $8 to $10 per user).Microsoft 365 Business Premium (up from $20 to $22 per user).

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Microsoft 365 Business Basic (up from $5 to $6 per user).The price increase itself is only impacting six of the core Office 365 and Microsoft 365 plans, including:

Meanwhile, Microsoft has been continually adding features and new products to these services, so the price increase (for the growing value and ROI) is possibly long overdue. To Microsoft’s credit, it hasn’t raised prices on any of its cloud services for some time.
