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Up to 76% more: Australia's raw Office 365 deal
Renai LeMay
Wednesday, 29 June 2011 12:11
Office 365 is Microsoft's answer to Google Apps. For a small monthly fee on a per-user basis, customers will be able to access a host of online services which mirror Microsoft's desktop software, ranging from a popular online version of its Outlook/Exchange collaboration suite, to online versions of Microsoft Word, Excel, SharePoint, Lync and more.
However, Australians will pay a great deal more than US customers for the exact same software.
In the US, Microsoft will charge US$6 per month per user for the software '” or US$72 a year. In Australian dollars, at current conversion rates, that fee would be AU$5.70. However, in Australia, Microsoft will charge customers AU$7.90 '” a fee 38.5 percent higher than the equivalent US fee. And the markups increase if you buy more complete Office 365 enterprise packages from Microsoft '” with the third-tier package going for AU$40.10 per user per month '” or 76 percent more than the US$24 version.
A Microsoft spokesperson could not immediately comment on the price hike.
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