How Microsoft's Pricing Changes Impacts Your Business

Microsoft announced pricing increases that take effect March 2022. These increases will be applied universally to all subscriptions. Effective March 2022:

  • Office 365 E1 $10 per user per month
  • Office 365 E3 $23 per user per month
  • Office 365 E5 $38 per user per month
  • Microsoft 365 E3 $36 per user per month
  • Microsoft 365 Business Basic $6 per user per month
  • Microsoft 365 Business Premium $22 per user per month

David Kakish and Erik Von Rueden explain these changes and what you need to know for your business. Tune in.

New Subscription Options

Microsoft also announced a new subscription option that includes an annual commitment. You can now choose between the month-to-month subscription you currently have, and an annual subscription

Month-to-Month Subscription

  • Billed monthly
  • Includes a 20% price increase in addition to the March 2022 pricing increase
  • Ability to add, remove or cancel subscriptions as needed

Annual Subscription

  • Billed monthly for 12 months
  • No price increase included in addition to the March 2022 pricing increase
  • Ability to increase the number of licenses as needed
  • Decreasing the number of licenses, cancelation or changing vendors can only be made at the end of the 12-month commitment on the anniversary date of the Microsoft annual purchase

Are you interested in changing your Microsoft subscriptions to an annual commitment?

If you want to change to Microsoft's annual subscription, please submit the below form. Once we get this form for you, we’ll schedule a call with you to go over the details together.

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  • Billed monthly for 12 months
  • Only the pricing increase will apply. There is no premium for this option
  • Changes can only be done at the end of your 12-month commitment (on the anniversary date of your Microsoft annual purchase). This means that for 12-months:
    • You can increase the number of subscriptions but cannot decrease the number of subscriptions
    • Your Microsoft contract will be tied to InhouseCIO for the duration of the subscription
    • You can only cancel or reduce the Qty’s can only be made annually on our Microsoft contract anniversary date.