Microsoft business applications and AI licensing explained
Customers of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Power Platform used to have granular control over where their environments were provisioned. For instance, if you created a CRM development environment in France, there were no problems ensuring also the test and production databases landed in France. Soon, that will not be something you can take for granted.
Microsoft announced Agent 365 back in November 2025 at the annual Ignite conference. Right after the announcement, a trial version of the Agent 365 licenses was made available. A lot has changed since and this can lead to confusing experiences for customers. Such as this recent notification email saying Your organization s Microsoft 365 Frontier for
Microsoft announced the General Availability of Copilot Cowork on June 16th and the most immediate reaction from the online audience has been on its pricing model. Unlike the flat fee of Microsoft 365 Copilot premium licenses, using Copilot Cowork will always require consuming Copilot Credits. The $30pupm M365 Copilot is merely a prerequisite of unlocking
Microsoft publishes licensing terms as documents that an LLM can surely read. If providing answers to licensing questions was merely a matter of searching through text and identifying what the likely relationships between each token are, AI chatbots would be perfectly suited to solve these problems. The reality is a bit more complex. Merely throwing
It hasn t been long since Microsoft increased the Dataverse default capacity entitlements for all customers. This was a very welcome change, given how the actual cost of add-on storage capacity for Dataverse has not decreased since the 2019 licensing model was introduced. Given broader trends in storage hardware pricing, there’s unlikely to be much market
When Microsoft reported the total Microsoft 365 Copilot add-on license sales to be only 15 million seats in their January 2026 earnings call, it became harder to ignore that premium AI feature adoption remains in the low single digits as a share of the Microsoft 365 base. What this means is over nine out of
Together with the Microsoft 365 E7 announcement (see my cheeky Ea7y-E take here), Microsoft also set the General Availability date for Microsoft Agent 365: May 1, 2026. We also got the price when buying A365 outside the E7 bundle: $15 per user per month. The launch post for Agent 365 on the Microsoft security blog
Back in January, the signals around Power Apps per app end of sale looked fairly straightforward: Microsoft had finally decided to shut the door on the old $5 per app license for new customers. Since then, however, a couple of new public clues have emerged that make the story more interesting. The biggest change is
The Microsoft world is already filled with posts about M365 E7. Sure, it s an important launch, yet it s still just a bundle. And it s pretty darn expensive at $99. Instead of rushing to analyze and repeat the same basic information that other websites are publishing, I decided this is a good moment to make use
In 2025, I got the chance to visit DynamicsMinds for the first time. This community event for Dynamics 365 and Power Platform professionals takes place in the unique location of Portorož, Slovenia. Compared to the usual tech conferences, DynamicsMinds is a very special experience that s hard to put into words for those who haven t been