By Tony Phillips
Publication Date: 2026-03-24 15:30:00
Remember the satisfaction of a Word document you took the time to format perfectly, or an Excel workbook you were actually proud to have built from scratch? Well, today, that personal touch is being replaced by “agentic” AI—software that performs tasks autonomously—and Microsoft 365 is pivoting to the boardroom.
The tools we grew up with aren’t really being built for us anymore, as Microsoft is increasingly prioritizing enterprise features over personal ones.
The enterprise feature gap is widening
The $99-a-month “Frontier” divide
Microsoft recently unveiled its all-singing, all-dancing Frontier Suite for the enterprise tier (E7), and the price tag is a massive wake-up call. At $99 per user, per month, Microsoft is effectively creating a pricing class system inside its productivity ecosystem. Indeed, the most innovative “Wave 3” features—like
