Microsoft is celebrating 10 full years of Microsoft 365 by including a brand new Microsoft 365 tier: Microsoft 365 Basic, which can price simply $1.99 per 30 days or $19.99 per yr when it launches on January 30.

It’s clear that Microsoft 365 Basic is designed so as to add new customers, and add them to the continued treadmill that’s Microsoft’s subscription mannequin. But the choices aren’t half dangerous, although there’s a catch: Subscribers gained’t have entry to the desktop variations of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, simply the net and cellular variations of these apps. Otherwise, Microsoft is making 100GB of OneDrive cloud storage obtainable, somewhat than the 1TB that accompanies the Microsoft 365 Personal ($6.99/mo) and Microsoft 365 Family ($9.99/mo) plans.

Microsoft’s pitch is that the brand new Basic plan will deliver with it “peace of mind,” and the corporate factors to the power to again up one’s images as a part of that. The Basic plan additionally affords entry to Microsoft help for each Windows 11 and the Microsoft 365 (previously Office 365 apps), too. The free model of Microsoft 365, which incorporates the net/cellular variations of Microsoft 365 and simply 5GB of cloud storage, doesn’t.

Microsoft 365 Basic will add each ransomware restoration and password-protected sharing hyperlinks in OneDrive later in 2023, Microsoft stated.

In addition to the brand new Microsoft 365 plan, Microsoft additionally plans to higher talk how OneDrive information are saved. “With this update, you get a simplified overview of your storage usage across Microsoft 365, including OneDrive, Outlook, and more,” Microsoft stated.

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The key seems to be that Microsoft will now escape numerous parts of your storage quota. In an instance, Microsoft confirmed how the storage quota could possibly be separated into each basic OneDrive storage, but additionally attachments despatched together with Outlook e-mail. That’s one other helpful solution to help you clean up your Outlook inbox past the methods Microsoft already supplies.