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.
There is a toggle in your admin centre called Frontier, it keeps growing new options, and almost nobody has explained what it is. In episode seven of 365 Explained, Ben has a go at exactly that. Frontier is a badly publicised and widely misunderstood mechanism for shipping Copilot previews faster than any normal release cycle allows — which makes it both useful and slightly alarming.
Thirty dollars a user a month. What actually turns up for that, and how is it different from the Copilot everyone already has for free? In episode four of 365 Explained, Ben and Zach go through M365 Copilot in practice rather than in a keynote: where it earns its money, where it does not, and what to tell people before they turn it on.
What is a Copilot Notebook actually doing that a Loop page or a OneNote section isn’t, and why can’t you share one? In episode two of 365 Explained, Ben and Zach dig into Copilot Notebooks: how you ground Copilot against a specific pile of references, what custom instructions are really for, and the sharing limitation that undercuts the whole thing.
