Says E5 is easier to manage per user and, when compared with what they ran before, cost less and delivered a little more.
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A score out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews, so a handful of glowing reviews can’t beat a product many people like.
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Customer reviews (169)
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Priced E3 plus phone, Power BI Pro and P2 and found it already cost more than E5, which includes all of them.
They use Microsoft Exchange for their email and like it. They pay about $6 a month, which includes 1TB of OneDrive.
Runs a personal Entra test lab on one F1 licence for about two pounds a month on a rolling plan.
Compared with Proton Duo, finds Office 365 Family better value with a gig per person, full Office documents and no ads.
Pays $20 a month for a single Business Premium licence as a test tenant instead of a costly developer program.
Has learned Microsoft 365 for 15 years for the price of one Business Premium licence on a personal tenant.
A single Business Premium licence covers nearly everything and doubles as a personal, homelab and learning tenant.
Found moving from E3 plus add-ons to E5 cheaper with current Microsoft deals, depending on which E5 features you need.
Replaced E3 plus CrowdStrike and Proofpoint with E5 a few years back to save money.
A small-business owner picked Microsoft Exchange Online Plan 1 as the cheapest reliable business email and configured their domain without trouble.
Pays $60 a month for E3 plus Copilot as a personal test tenant and counts it as professional development.
With 30 years of Unix and 12 of self-hosting, still gladly pays for O365 Family and says the Office part cannot be replaced.
Uses a single Business Premium licence on a test tenant with used phones and a VM for Intune work.
Used the M365 developer tenant for home-lab learning at about thirty cents a month and found it very valuable.
Common questions about Microsoft 365
Is Microsoft 365 worth it?
Of the 132 reviews with a clear verdict, 17% are positive, 9% mixed and 73% negative. The praise mentioned most is great value. The most common complaint is poor support.
What do people like about Microsoft 365?
The praise reviewers mention most: great value (14 reviews), easy to use (9 reviews) and reliable (5 reviews). For example: Used the M365 developer tenant for home-lab learning at about thirty cents a month and found it very valuable.
What are the most common complaints about Microsoft 365?
The complaints reviewers mention most: poor support (32 reviews), outages (13 reviews) and renewal price hike (12 reviews). For example: Helped a client locked out of its tenant for over two weeks and calls Microsoft's recovery process disdainful.
What does the signal score of 57 mean?
It's how well reviewed Microsoft 365 is, out of 100. Negative and mixed reviews take points off, and so does having only a few reviews: a service needs plenty of them, compared with the most-reviewed services here, to reach the high 80s and 90s. It's worked out from reviews only, needs at least 5 of them, and updates as new ones come in.
What are the specs of Microsoft 365?
Category: Email hosting.
Where do these Microsoft 365 reviews come from?
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