Inflation

[Markverhyden]

Got the notice below this morning. This caused me to check on M$ direct sales. Looks like they mentioned in January it was coming.

Post | Texas I.T. Pros

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[Sky-Knight]

These were announced 8-19-21, you're more than a little late to the party

New pricing for Microsoft 365 | Microsoft 365 Blog

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.

www.microsoft.com

The percentage increases aren't quite right either... but whatever.

The important thing to note is, March 1st these prices go into effect but then on July 1st, enforcement of annual terms begins, which takes these new prices and pushes them up another 20% to be on month-to-month terms.

No more saying you're annual and getting monthly changes.

Heck there are several threads on this forum about it already, but I'm reiterating stuff AGAIN because it needs it. Anyone working with m365 is heavily impacted by these TWO changes.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Yeah news came out end of last summer, I started preparing my clients around Thanksgiving.
This week we just started flipping our licenses through PAX8 with the new NCE sSKUs.

I'm honestly surprised Microsoft hasn't raised prices since....basically 365 came out.
For example...our prior mainstream license, Office 365 E3, was $20/month/user back in 2005 or whatever when 365 first came out.
It's still been that, til now. And it's really not that much more money now.

Our mainstream license now is M365 Business Premium...also was $20/user/month, now it's $24. And you GET SO MUCH MORE!