Cloud-powered AI now automatically creates maps, charts, and tables in Excel, and sorts email and removes clutter in Outlook. Across Microsoft 365, we have introduced AI-powered innovations to help users be better writers, designers, and presenters. Over the past decade, we have infused AI capabilities across our productivity and collaboration applications to help everyone achieve more.
Built-in mobile device management (MDM) and other management tools like Microsoft Endpoint Manager help admins support remote and hybrid workforces.ģ. And we have added powerful compliance capabilities that help organizations reduce risk and respond to increasing regulatory requirements such as Content Search, eDiscovery, and core Litigation Hold.
We have added capabilities like data loss prevention (DLP) for email and documents, sensitivity labels, and message encryption to help keep important data within the organization. Since we first introduced Microsoft 365, we have added new attack surface reduction capabilities to help organizations defend against ransomware and other threats. With the accelerating volume, sophistication, and scale of cyberattacks, security and compliance are a priority for every organization. The cybersecurity landscape is more complex than ever. We’ve added and expanded OneDrive cloud storage and the Exchange Online mailboxes.Ģ. We introduced real-time collaboration in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint desktop apps while a growing set of capabilities like assign tasks, modern comments, and auto-save have streamlined the collaboration experience. We continue to innovate on both real-time and asynchronous collaboration. Companies like Adobe, Atlassian, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, and Workday have built apps that deeply integrate with Teams, bringing business processes and functions directly into the flow of work. We introduced a new category of collaborative applications in Teams, empowering people and organizations for hybrid work through deep integrations with Power Platform, Whiteboard, Lists, Planner, Shifts, Forms, and SharePoint. In 2020 alone we released over 300 new capabilities including Together mode, background effects, large gallery view, raise hand, live reactions, breakout rooms, live captions with speaker attribution, and Fluid components, just to name a few. We launched Teams in 2017 as the only integrated solution where you can meet, chat, call, collaborate, and automate business processes-with the power of the Office apps-all within the flow of work. Microsoft Teams is the new front end across work, life, and learning for more than 250 million monthly active users. In fact, since introducing Microsoft 365 we have added 24 apps 1 to the suites-Microsoft Teams, Power Apps, Power BI, Power Automate, Stream, Planner, Visio, OneDrive, Yammer, and Whiteboard-and have released over 1,400 new features and capabilities in three key areas.ġ. That same year we added Microsoft Teams as the only integrated solution where you can meet, chat, call, collaborate, and automate business processes-right in the flow of work. Four years ago, we introduced Microsoft 365 to bring together the best of Office, Windows, and Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS). Along the way, we have continuously re-invested to meet the changing needs of our customers. Since its launch a decade ago, Office 365 has grown to over 300 million commercial paid seats. Let’s take a look at some of the innovations we’ve delivered over the past decade in three key areas-communications and collaboration, security and compliance, and AI and automation-as well as the addition of audio conferencing capabilities that we’re announcing today. This updated pricing reflects the increased value we have delivered to our customers over the past 10 years.
Microsoft office 365 price update#
Today we are announcing changes to our commercial pricing for Microsoft 365-the first substantive pricing update since we launched Office 365 a decade ago.