- 2018-11-28
- Posted by: Scott Smith
- Category: Microsoft Office 365
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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 | |||
| 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 | ✔ | ✔ | |
For a complete comparison of all Office 365 features, please click here.
What is Office 365
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.