{"id":978777,"date":"2025-12-06T07:30:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978777"},"modified":"2025-12-06T07:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:08:19","slug":"microsoft-to-lift-productivity-suite-prices-for-businesses-governments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/06\/microsoft-to-lift-productivity-suite-prices-for-businesses-governments\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to lift productivity suite prices for businesses, governments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will increase prices for its Microsoft 365 productivity suites globally starting July 2026 for commercial and government clients, the company said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>The move comes as Microsoft&#8217;s suite, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint, faces growing competition from Google&#8217;s products.<\/p>\n<p>The price hike will affect businesses and public sector agencies, with small business and frontline worker plans seeing the sharpest increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will increase prices for its Microsoft 365 productivity suites globally starting July 2026 for commercial and government clients, the company said on Thursday. The move comes as Microsoft&#8217;s suite, which includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint, faces growing competition from Google&#8217;s products. The price hike will affect businesses and public sector agencies, with small business and frontline worker plans seeing the sharpest increases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}