June is a popular month to renew Microsoft contracts, because buyers can often get good deals out of sales staff just before the close of Microsoft’s financial year. But some combinations of those attributes don’t exist: There’s no Office 365 F1, or Microsoft 365 E1, for example.Įnterprise CIOs need to pay attention to these increases right now: “If you have a renewal in June or December next year, you better be on top of this right now,” Mansfield says. There’s Office 365, with just the basic apps, or Microsoft 365, which adds a Windows license and enterprise mobility and security tools, each with two categories of support, E (for enterprise) and F (for frontline workers), and each of those can come in different levels (E1, E3, and E5, or F1 and F3).
Pricing for the many similarly named subscriptions is confusing. 19 blog post, “New pricing for Microsoft 365,” you would still have had to wade through over 800 words about all the features the company has added to the package since its launch 10 years ago before getting to the bottom line: a 25% increase in the per-seat price of Office 365 at the E1 support level and a 20% increase in Microsoft 365 Business Basic, with smaller increases in other subscription levels.
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