Office 365 Canadian Pricing

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced a December 1st, 2018 pricing increase of 5% on Canadian Microsoft O365 subscriptions.

Whether monthly or annual, each subscription was created with an underlying soft-contract, the duration of which is 12 months from the first billing date. Pricing for existing subscriptions is protected for the duration of that contract. To summarize the implications:

• Active & existing subscriptions are price-protected until the renewal date of the soft-contract, which is 12 months from said contract's creation.
• Additional seats added to existing subscriptions are also price-protected until the renewal date of the corresponding contract.
• New subscriptions created on or before November 30th, 2018 will be created at November prices and will be price protected for the 12-month soft-contract period.
• New contracts created after November 30th, 2018 will follow Microsoft's new pricing (at a 5% increase)

The new pricing is below:

	Office 365 Business	Office 365 Business Premium	Office 365 Business Essentials
Old Monthly	$10.50	$15.20	$6.10
New Monthly (annual commitment)	$11.03	$15.96	$6.41
Annually	$132.30	$191.52	$76.86
Desktop versions of Office applications: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote (plus Access and Publisher for PC only)	✓	✓
One Drive	✓	✓	✓
Email Hosting with 50GB mailbox and custom email domain address		✓	✓
Web versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint		✓	✓
Outlook Online			✓

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Office 365 is a cloud-based subscription service that brings together the best tools for the way people work today. By combining best-in-class apps like Excel and Outlook with powerful cloud services like OneDrive and Microsoft Teams, Office 365 lets anyone create and share anywhere on any device.