Microsoft 365 is getting a price increase. Announced in December 2025 and effective July 1, 2026, the update affects a broad range of commercial, nonprofit, and government subscriptions, from Business Basic to Enterprise E5. It also introduces changes to the features includes in some plans.

If you or your team are still running Office 2021, which houses the standalone perpetual-license versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, mark your calendar.

Relying on manually created tracking tools often leads to formatting errors and broken data connections across your organization. Discover how the latest processing capabilities shift software from a passive database into an active, self-correcting partner.

Microsoft Viva Insights helps organizations understand how work actually gets done, from meeting habits and collaboration patterns to broader productivity trends. With the right setup, it can reveal where teams are losing time and productivity and how they can work more efficiently.

Improving your proficiency with Excel is one of the fastest ways to boost office productivity. These essential functions help you navigate large amounts of information with ease and accuracy. Counting with precision using COUNT and COUNTA Managing large lists often requires knowing exactly how many entries you have without manually tallying them.

Your Microsoft Excel spreadsheets are likely the lifeblood of your small business. Whether it’s your monthly budget, an upcoming payroll sheet, or your entire inventory list, seeing hours of hard work vanish in an instant is terrifying. Before you start retyping everything from scratch, take a deep breath.

Microsoft Teams connects employees and information in one place, but that convenience also means security matters more than ever. Follow these steps to better protect data, manage permissions, and monitor activity within Teams. Carefully manage third-party apps Microsoft Teams allows organizations to add various third-party applications to expand its functionality.

With remote and hybrid work now the norm, visual collaboration tools have become essential for allowing teams to brainstorm, plan, and innovate together in real time. Learn how Microsoft Whiteboard helps distributed teams stay aligned, creative, and productive, no matter where they work.

From security cameras and smart TVs to printers, HVAC controllers, conference room tablets, and wireless sensors, there are likely many internet-connected devices in your network that aren’t computers. While these smart devices can boost your efficiency and productivity, they also are also less secure by nature and often go unnoticed by your IT team.