Microsoft ha presentado planes para aumentar los precios de varios planes de suscripción de Microsoft 365 y Office 365 hasta en un 25%. Los aumentos entrarán en vigor el 1 de marzo de 2022.
Redmond Wash Developer. justified the higher prices by noting, and then detailing, the additions to the plans since the launch of Office 365 in June 2011. "This price update reflects the increased value we've delivered to our customers over the past 10 years." ,” Jared Spataro, vice president of Microsoft 365, said in an August 19 post to a corporate blog. Spataro also said it was the first price increase in the life of Office 365, although he qualified this with the phrase “the first substantial price update (that's what we're underlining" in this post. While it's true that most of the price increases in Office were due to the perpetual license) suite version – which made these suites less competitive With Office 365 subscriptions, there has been at least one instance where Microsoft has improved on the latter.In 2014, the company increased the prices of the plans by around 15% for some business customers, a higher percentage increase than many plans that are expected to increase in March.
Prices between 9% and 25% higher
Most, but not all, corporate and business plans will see increases in March. Dollar amounts range from €1 to €4 per user per month, or €12 to €48 per user per year, with percentage increases ranging from as low as 9% to as high as 25%. Microsoft listed the new prices as:
- Microsoft 365 Business Basic, up to € 1 to € 6 per month, per user.
- Microsoft 365 Business Premium, up to € 2 to € 22 per month, per user.
- Office 365 E1, up to € 2- € 10 per month, per user.
- Office 365 E3, up to € 3 to € 23 per month, per user.
- Office 365 E5, up to € 3 to € 38 per month, per user.
- Microsoft 365 E3, up to € 4 to € 36 per month, per user.
Some plans haven't been affected, including the relatively recent F-Series for frontline workers, as well as Microsoft's most expensive and comprehensive subscription plan, Microsoft 365 E5, which sells for $57 per user per month. Specific consumption and education plans were not affected either. "There are no price changes for educational and consumer products at this time," Spataro said, the phrase "at this time" edgy and likely heralding an increase as well. The increases came months after Microsoft announced that its next perpetually licensed Office, the upfront-paid edition that provides the rights to run the software for as long as you want, would have 10% higher prices. LTSC office. . This increase has been interpreted as a new effort by Microsoft to portray perpetual editions from a competitive perspective. Such comparisons have lost some of their validity now that Microsoft's subscription costs have risen, but as Computerworld noted in February, Redmond's decision to reduce Office LTSC support to five years will have a bigger impact on weighting than price. of the two license models. .
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