Microsoft increases prices for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 (effective March 1, 2022)
Price Update – Impacted SKUs – Effective March 1, 2022
Here is some additional info on the price increases and purchasing option changes for Microsoft 365 Licensing that will take effect March 1, 2022.
We have put together an estimate of the new prices based off of the US dollar prices that have been made public by Microsoft. Official Canadian pricing with the actual prices in Canadian dollars will be communicated to you as soon as Microsoft releases them.
For reference, the chart on the right shows the estimated Canadian pricing and the official USD pricing below. These increases will apply globally with local market adjustments for certain regions.
In addition the pricing changes, Microsoft has also announced that they will be enforcing the annual licensing terms and eliminating the ability for early cancellation and proration of charges. Details of how this will work have not been made publicly available and we will provide additional information as soon as we receive an update.
There are also some enhancements that Microsoft has also announcedwith the new licensing changes:
Free Audio Conferencing
Adding unlimited dial-in across the suites (currently included in Microsoft 365 E5 and Office 365 E5) at no additional cost:
Microsoft 365 E3, Office 365 E3 / E1 / Microsoft 365 F3 / F1, Office 365 F3 / Microsoft 365 Business Basic / Business Standard / Business Premium
How will this price change impact existing customers?
Existing customers are not impacted until their next renewal on or after March 1, 2022
Why is Microsoft raising the prices?
Microsoft delivered value over the past 10 years and is committed to continue innovation going forward. Since 2011, Microsoft has added 25 applications and released over 1400 new capabilities to Office 365 and Microsoft 365.
First substantive update to the list price for:
Office 365 since first launched, June 2011
Microsoft 365 since first launched, March 2017
Since launch, Microsoft has added or introduced 19 applications
Teams, Access, Bookings, Delve, Forms, GroupMe, Kaizala, Lens, Lists, OneDrive, OneNote Class Notebook, Planner, Power Platform, Publisher, SharePoint, Skype for Business, Staff Hub, Stream, Sway, To-Do, Visio, Whiteboard, and Yammer.
Since launch, Microsoft has developed and released over 1400 capabilities
Communication & Collaboration: Together Mode, Custom Backgrounds, Front Row, live captions with speaker attribution, group chat with up to 250 people, polls in Teams meetings, and virtual breakout rooms; Whiteboard; Lists; Planner; Shifts; Forms; real-time collaboration in Word, Excel, PowerPoint desktop apps; @mentions; assign tasks; modern comments; auto-save; expanded cloud storage
Security & Compliance: DLP for email and documents, sensitivity labels, and message encryption; Content Search, eDiscovery, and core Litigation Hold; MFA
AI & Assistance: Automatic video transcription & face detection in Stream; Acronyms in Word; Live captions & subtitles; Ideas in Word, Natural language query in Excel; Presenter Coach; Ideas in PowerPoint; Resume Assistant; Designer in PowerPoint; Editor in Word & Outlook; Researcher in Word; Translate