Microsoft plans to raise the price of its perpetually-licensed Office suite by 10% in October. The increases are part of a larger strategy, said Wes Miller, an analyst and licensing expert with ...

Microsoft has long enjoyed Olympian profit margins, using its monopoly power to maintain prices on its software even in tough times. But now, amid a terrible downturn and rising competition, CEO ...

Though Office 365 has lower operating margins than the traditional packaged Office software suite with increasing scale, Microsoft has been able to continually reduce its hosting costs by ...

A chart detailing some of the expected Office 2013/New Office prices leaked in October 2012. When I asked Microsoft at the time (and a few times later) to confirm the prices, company officials ...

Paul DeGroot, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft Inc. in Kirkland, Washington, doesn’t expect Microsoft to change its global pricing strategy overnight, but does see some changes happening at ...

Microsoft is claiming some users could see price decreases with the new Office 2013 servers due to consolidation in SKUs. But your mileage may vary.

If your company uses one of the higher tier Microsoft 365 plans, (like Office 365 E3 or E5), switching to one of the higher-price Google Workspace plans could save you a substantial amount of money.

Paul DeGroot, an analyst at Directions on Microsoft in Kirkland, Wash., doesn’t expect Microsoft to change its global pricing strategy overnight, but does see some changes happening at the local ...

According to Microsoft, “A subscription costs $399.96 for four years. By contrast, they would have to spend $699.95 to equip all five of their devices with Office Home and Student 2013.” ...

Germany has fined Microsoft €9 million (US$11.9 million) for illegally pressing a retailer to sell its Office productivity software for a certain price, one of the country’s competition ...