In late March, Microsoft announced plans to rebrand its Office 365 consumer subscriptions with the "Microsoft 365" name. As of April 21, that new M365 branding takes effect for existing Office 365 ...

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The change, which takes place April 21, is designed 'to reflect the range of features and benefits in the subscription' plans, the company said. Microsoft today announced name changes to the Office ...

Microsoft's fiscal third quarter was better than expected as the company added 1 million Office 365 Home subscribers, benefited from the enterprise move away from Windows XP, rode its enterprise unit ...

For several years, Microsoft truly believed that a fleet of hardware devices could carry its software into homes and businesses. Based on news around the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report, ...

The launch of new and revised Office 365 software-by-subscription plans for businesses shows that Microsoft realizes its current licensing revenue is threatened by cost-cutting customers, an analyst ...

Microsoft is reorganizing its entire sales organization to better focus on its fast-growing cloud-computing business, according to an internal memo sent to employees on Monday morning. Most people ...

Microsoft could save you some money if you have a dormant Xbox Live Gold or Game Pass subscription and forget to cancel your membership. Well, at least if you're in the UK for now. The company has ...

Even as it has cut the price of Windows—offering it for free on phones and small screen tablets, plus there's a Bing edition for everything else—Microsoft is still working on ways to monetize its ...

There's been some debate about whether or not Microsoft will try to compete with Sony on a more direct level by going after one of their competitor's best features: free online play. PSN has always ...

The risk for Microsoft here is not that they don't go for the subscriptions; it's that faced with a bunch of unappealing options—being on the hook forever with the subscription, or paying through the ...

Microsoft has released a major update for Windows 11 that includes the AI Copilot, and now subscriptions for the Microsoft 365 Copilot AI add-on are available. The tool, which aims to compete with ...