Commentary The guessing game about when and if Microsoft might add an E7 tier to its Microsoft 365 lineup continues after the company's latest results.
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Currently, Microsoft has two enterprise tiers, E3 and E5, which offer businesses a variety of services, including productivity and security applications. Other options include tiers for frontline workers and education customers, but E3 and E5 are where the bulk of the money is.
However, Microsoft has started adding extra services on top. Want Microsoft 365 Copilot? Sure – that's an extra $30.00 per user per month stateside, or £24.70 plus VAT for the same deal in the UK. That Entra suite that Microsoft keeps turning on when talking about identity and access? No problem – we'll add it to your invoice. The European Commission made us split teams, but do you want that too? The premium version? Absolutely – do you have a spare kidney on hand?
Instructions on Microsoft analyst Wes Miller writes: "These add-ons each share three characteristics. They each require a service included in one of the Microsoft 365 enterprise suites (E3 or E5); each has a reasonably broad appeal to knowledge workers; and each would likely have been added at no additional cost to existing Microsoft Enterprise Suites, based on past trends."
