Google, Apple, Dropbox and Box want that same action.
Microsoft wants to bring people in from the cold of their past multi-year software buying cycles, while also shepherding smaller companies and businesses into its fold by selling them Office as a service at moderate price points. The moves are customer-friendly because we are in a period of intense competition. Microsoft has preserved a $5 per seat per month Office 365 option that includes its cloud products, but not desktop versions of Office proper. The company is lowering the price of its most expensive smaller business offering - from $15 per seat per month to $12.50 - and raising the employee cap in some cases to 300 from 25. Microsoft today announced a raft of new Office 365 plans for smaller businesses that will eventually supplant its extant offerings.
