Microsoft 365 Premium

Microsoft announce Microsoft 365 Premium, a new offering exclusively for consumers. Not to be confused with Microsoft 365 Business Premium, this subscription combines Microsoft 365 Family with Copilot Pro, allowing six users access to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote, along with 1 TB of cloud storage each. There are also advanced AI features only available to the subscription owner, which include the highest available usage limits and the powerful reasoning agents Researcher and Analyst.

Find the details of the announcement here: http://bit.ly/4n1o2Ii.

GA of Microsoft Places

Microsoft announce that Microsoft Places is now generally available. This new technology is based on Teams and Microsoft 365 Copilot and is designed to help users have a better experience when they’re working from their office – by making it easy to coordinate in-person gatherings or to sync up spontaneously with colleagues also working from the office on a particular day. From a licensing perspective there are three tiers of features: core, enhanced, and additional. If you’ve got Microsoft 365 Business Basic/Standard/Premium, Office 365 F3/E1/E3/E5 or Microsoft 365 F3/E3/E5 licence then you have access to the core features, although you’ll also need a Teams licence if it’s not included in your plan. The enhanced features are available through a Teams Premium Add-on licence, and the additional features need a Microsoft 365 Copilot licence too.

You can find the announcement here: https://bit.ly/4eIoUgX with lots of visionary information as to what Places might do for you, and the more pragmatic Learn documentation here: https://bit.ly/4i3m8ph.