Microsoft announces Microsoft 365, a service to replace personal Office 365

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  Teams will offer features for families. [credit: Microsoft ]

Starting April 21, Microsoft's Office 365 personal and family subscription suite will be renamed Microsoft 365 in a move that heralds an effort by the company to win over more consumer users.

Seeking to make a point with the rebranding, Microsoft calls it "a subscription service for your life," which might conjure visions of Amazon Prime. Microsoft 365 will cost $6.99 per month, and a six-user, $9.99 family plan will also be offered. Its apps will be available on Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.

It will include Office applications like Word and Excel as Office 365 has, but it comes with a promise of new apps and services both today and in the future. In a blog post describing the new service, Microsoft wrote that Microsoft 365 will offer "new artificial intelligence (AI), rich content and templates, and cloud-powered experiences."

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