Microsoft 365

About Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) is Microsoft's cloud-based productivity suite, combining the world's most widely used office applications — Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and SharePoint — with cloud storage and collaboration features. With over 400 million paid seats, Microsoft 365 is the dominant productivity platform in enterprises and a major presence in SMBs, education, and homes. The suite has evolved significantly from standalone desktop software to a deeply integrated cloud platform where documents coexist with Teams meetings, OneDrive syncs files across devices, and SharePoint powers intranet sites. Copilot for Microsoft 365, powered by GPT-4, adds AI assistance across all apps — drafting emails in Outlook, summarizing meetings in Teams, generating presentations in PowerPoint, and analyzing data in Excel. Microsoft 365 Personal is $69.99/year (1 user, 1TB OneDrive). Microsoft 365 Family is $99.99/year (up to 6 users). Business Basic starts at $6/user/month and Business Premium at $22/user/month with advanced security. The platform's ubiquity in enterprise IT makes it the default choice for most large organizations, though Google Workspace has made significant inroads particularly with startups and education.