Microsoft 365 Basic will be a new subscription option that the software giant will launch later this month. It will replace the current 100 GB OneDrive tariff and will be very interesting for all consumers for its low price, because It will cost only $1.99 per month or $20 per year.

It is widely agreed that Microsoft 365 is the most comprehensive computing solution for productivity and collaboration in the industry. Of course, there are quality alternatives, Google Docs / G Suite as an online version and LibreOffice for local installations as an example, but Microsoft managed to place the service (formerly known as Office 365) at the head of this important group. software with tens of millions of subscribers.

But he wants more, and in a year that will be challenging from an economic point of view, what better than to launch a new subscription, basic but enough for mostwith costs that every computer user can afford.

Microsoft 365 Basic

As you may know, Microsoft offers separate subscriptions to its OneDrive cloud storage service, and one of them is 100GB. This plan is exactly what will be replaced by Microsoft 365 Basic, which will offer (at the same price) much more value by including Office suite applications and other advantages, among which we can mention:

• Office apps accessible via web and mobile.
• 100 GB of OneDrive space.
• Ad-free Outlook on web and mobile.
• Additional security features such as data encryption in Outlook, attachment scanning and suspicious link scanning.
• Additional features for OneDrive such as personal vault, password-protected and expiring links, ransomware data recovery and bulk file storage (coming later in 2023)
• Additional phone or online chat support for apps and Windows 11.

Microsoft will retain the service’s two existing plans for consumers: Personal and Family. In case you’re wondering differences between the Personal version and the new Basic, let’s say it won’t be able to download or install desktop Office apps. However, you can use the same apps via Web and Mobile, it includes the above benefits and 100 GB of cloud storage for an extremely low price: $1.99 per month or $20 per year.

Microsoft 365 Basic will available January 30 and you can work on Windows, macOS, iOS and Android. We’re guessing it’ll be a bomb and add another few tens of millions of customers to this service, in our opinion the best and most important of everything the company has to offer. Including windows…