Office 365 Rebranded to ‘Microsoft 365’ With New AI-Powered Features and More

Mar. 31, 2020

Microsoft on Monday announced a rebranding for its cloud-basedOffice 365productivity suite for consumers, naming itMicrosoft 365 Personal and Family. In an official blog post, the company said that the change will bring a powerful set of free applications and services that will help users create, share, connect, and collaborate with their friends and family.

The new service will be available on the web, as well as on Windows, macOS, Android and iOS devices. It will incorporate all the familiar apps and services that have long been an integral part of the Office suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Skype, Outlook, OneNote and OneDrive. Alongside the consumer suite, some of the commercial offerings for small and medium-sized enterprises are also being rebranded to Microsoft 365.

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While the new product name will go into effect on April 21, the new features have already started rolling and will reach all 38 millionOffice 365subscribers over the next few months. The announcements were made in an online event,the invites for which were sent out a couple of weeks earlier. Microsoft 365 has been priced starting at $6.99 per month.

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