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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).
No one who takes their job seriously uses Copilot anything.
hey AI, your em dash is showing.
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

It is customary to start a quoted paragraph (e. blockquote) with a greater then symbol (>) e.g.:

> This is a quoted paragraph

It is then expected that you share some insights or opinions on the paragraph you quoted. Just pasting a quote without any context nor markers makes it look you these are your own words.

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.
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

You should have used quotation marks and a link to the source.

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

It is a parody. Inovation, value, security - things which Microsoft strugles to deliver since 30 years.
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?

We've lost customers over the increased price.
Probably worse productivity because now I have to read paragraphs of emails that could have been sentences.
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.

Without context it reads like you work in a publisher that publishes fiction...
I thought the same. Business lingo has really jumped the shark. "story" is already stupid enough, but "epic"? Seriously? :-D
Copilot actually can search outlook emails on Mac. This is the greatest achievement of any AI.
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Splotlight search might work, but until copilot, trying to search your own email in New Outlook wouldn't find emails literally right in front of your nose, on the screen.
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They do increase RAM and processor usage.
It’s pure gold for contractors trying to snow clients. The people who used to struggle to produce a good looking document can now quickly produce something without visible tells that they have no idea what they’re talking about, even though they still have no idea.
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Any word on 'A' (Education) licenses?

A1/A2/A3?

It makes no sense to use 365 anymore, there are so many other alternatives
Not if all parties require Office documents, and its collaboration features.