Introduction Effective March 1, 2022, Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing is available as a Standalone license. Microsoft Teams Audio Conferencing with dial-out to select geographies is a new feature that allows Teams users to hold audio conferences and invite external participants to join via a
Starting November 1, 2021 and completed by mid-May 2022, the following versions of Microsoft Outlook for Windows, as part of Office and Microsoft 365 Apps, will retire and will not be able to connect with Office 365 and Microsoft 365 services anymore: Office 2007:
Effective March 1, 2022, the following pricing changes for Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft 365 per user per month subscriptions will take place: Microsoft Office 365 E1 (from $8 to $10) Microsoft Office 365 E3 (from $20 to $23) Microsoft Office 365 E5 (from
Microsoft announced that a Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus device add-on license will be available for Enterprise Agreement (EA) and Enterprise Subscription Agreement (EAS) customers in the summer of 2020. This will effectively allow a Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus license to be assigned to a
Microsoft announced that effective April 21, 2020 the following products for small and medium-sized businesses are renamed. This is a change to the product name only, and there are no pricing or feature changes at this time. Product name before 2020-04-21 Product name after
Microsoft Planner has been added to Microsoft 365 F1 and Office 365 F1 commercial and government plans starting at the beginning of October 2019. The Planner functionality is the same as in higher level plans, and there’s no action for a customer to take.
Microsoft announced that they will remove the branding “Online” for the web version of Office and introduce new terminology for the apps on the web. Apps like Word Online are now called “Word for the web” or “Word in a browser”. This new terminology
Microsoft announced that Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019 and Microsoft Office Home and Business 2019 are no longer available as Home Use Program offers. Microsoft Office customers in the Home Use Program can now only buy Microsoft Office 365 Home or Microsoft Office 365
In August, Microsoft will start rolling out changes to Microsoft Office 365 licensing technology to make it more reliable and resilient. These changes will help simplify activation management and streamline the Office 365 activation experience for users. Users will still sign-in to activate Office
Effective April 16, 2025, Microsoft 365 Copilot customers can measure their real AI adoption using the AI Adoption Score Report in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This new feature provides a simple and effective overview of the Microsoft 365 Copilot usage in your organization. What is the AI Adoption
Coming in May 2025, Microsoft will introduce six new agentic solutions within the Microsoft Security Copilot suite in public preview. These agents are designed to autonomously handle high-volume security and IT tasks, and integrate seamlessly with existing Microsoft Security solutions. What is Microsoft Security Copilot? Microsoft Security Copilot is a
On April 16, 2025, Microsoft released new AI models on Azure AI Foundry with significantly improved capabilities for coding, instruction following, and long-context processing. This article looks at these new models in detail to help you with the decision on what models to use within your organization. Background Microsoft