Microsoft adds higher-priced Office tier with Copilot as it tries to juice sales with AI

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is adding artificial intelligence to its Office productivity suite and charging 65% more for the upgraded offering, as the company tries to lure enterprise users to its Copilot AI add-on.

The new top-of-the-line bundle for corporate workers, Microsoft 365 E7, will cost $99 per user, per month, compared with $60 for the E5 subscription, after upcoming price hikes. E7 includes the $30 Copilot, $12 Entra identity tools and the new $15 Agent 365 product for managing companies’ AI agents.

Microsoft has sunk more than $100 billion in the past year into data center infrastructure, including Nvidia

chips that can power AI models. Selling AI offerings is one way to show a return on that investment.