New Microsoft 365 pricing live, some products up by 42% due to AI

chairmansteve•about 6 hours ago

If AI is so great, these price rises will pay for themselves many times over.....

Have any HNer's experienced or observed any productivity increases, or even any utility increases from co pilot?

jamesfinlayson•about 4 hours ago

Had a clueless business analyst get Copilot to write a bunch of stories for an epic, then when she had a meeting with me (and three other people!) to go through the stories I had to tell them that 90% of what they had done was wrong.

If they'd come to me from the outset I could have told them the one story title and handful of acceptance criteria that was required but instead we wasted 5 person hours and whatever Copilot costs.

netsharc•about 3 hours ago

Without context it reads like you work in a publisher that publishes fiction...

spacechild1•about 2 hours ago

I thought the same. Business lingo has really jumped the shark. "story" is already stupid enough, but "epic"? Seriously? :-D

itchingsphynx•about 5 hours ago

Probably worse productivity because now I have to read paragraphs of emails that could have been sentences.

bombcar•about 3 hours ago

Copilot actually can search outlook emails on Mac. This is the greatest achievement of any AI.

bigbuppo•about 6 hours ago

We've lost customers over the increased price.

meszmate•about 1 hour ago

It makes no sense to use 365 anymore, there are so many other alternatives

HDBaseT•about 1 hour ago

Any word on 'A' (Education) licenses?

A1/A2/A3?

ninko•about 7 hours ago

Microsoft is committed to delivering continuous innovation and value through Microsoft 365. Over the past several years, we’ve invested deeply in security, compliance, productivity, AI, and IT management— helping organizations stay productive, secure, and competitive in a rapidly evolving landscape. This change reflects the significant innovation delivered over the past several years and the added value customers will gain with new additions to the suites, including major advancements in AI (ex. Copilot Chat, Copilot Chat Analytics), security (ex. Microsoft Defender for Office P1), and IT management (ex. Intune Suite).

craftkiller•about 4 hours ago

You worded that as if you speak for Microsoft, but your account is 2 days old and this is your first comment, which makes me suspect you are a karma-farming bot.

ninko•about 3 hours ago

I pasted directly from MS's site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/2026-m365-pac...

Sorry if my comment was not clear, but my commment has an em dash because MS used one, and they likely use Copilot to write the blog :D

spacechild1•about 2 hours ago

That quote is really funny because it reads like a parody.

Next time just use quotation marks and add a link to the source.

jinxmeta•about 6 hours ago

so a long way of saying: we need to fund our AI.

RetroTechie•about 3 hours ago

War chest emptying, must raise taxes.

cyanydeez•about 6 hours ago

Now, instead of incremental UI changes, we can parade an infinite array of slop features to justify lifetime subscriptions by businesses, because, what are they going to do, learn something else?

diego_sandoval•about 6 hours ago

No one who takes their job seriously uses Copilot anything.

slimshade777•about 4 hours ago

hey AI, your em dash is showing.

ninko•about 3 hours ago

I pasted directly from MS's site: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/news/2026-m365-pac...

Sorry if my comment was not clear, but my commment has an em dash because MS used one, and they likely use Copilot to write the blog :D

New Microsoft 365 pricing live, some products up by 42% due to AI

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