So Microsoft put out three posts on Friday about the future of Copilot, tucked in at the end of the quarter. Everyone has done the headlines. This is three minutes on the bits underneath them. 🔹 Two terms to learn. USL is the user subscription licence, the M365...
Licensing
Copilot Business: usage-based billing on by default
Copilot Business is getting usage-based billing switched on by default. Here's what's published, what it means, and what's still unconfirmed. What Microsoft says New Microsoft 365 Copilot Business licences come with usage-based billing on by default (19 October direct...
Copilot licensing ladder
"We bought Copilot" is now the start of four different licensing conversations.... Yesterday I mapped what Copilot Chat, Cowork and Scout do. This is the licensing version: what it takes to switch each one on. Rung 1: Copilot Chat — includedComes with any Microsoft...
Microsoft 365 E7: what’s in the new Frontier Suite (and the $99 question)
Microsoft announced a new top tier above E5 for the first time since 2015, called it the Frontier Suite, and priced it at ninety-nine dollars a user a month. We dropped the episode we had planned and did this one instead. In episode eight of 365 Explained, Ben and Zach work through what is actually inside E7, how the enterprise ladder got here, and whether the maths holds up against buying the parts separately.
