Microsoft runs your office. Microsoft 365 Personal wants to run your family, too

 Skype is used by over 100 million people today. More than 38 billion people subscribe to Office. Teams is used by more than 44 million folks on a daily basis to organize meetings and schedules.

But your home life? In the era of working from home, when coordination is more important than ever? It’s a mishmash of Wunderlist, Remember the Milk, scribbled notes, and Google Hangout chats — if you’ve gotten yourself even that organized.

With two brand new offerings — Microsoft 365 Personal and Microsoft 365 Family — the productivity giant aims to organize your personal life, bringing the same tools that keep your work life humming to your family. Upgrade to Microsoft Family

Productivity at home

The new services were announced today, March 30, offering chat tools and a way to share photos, as well as lists, calendars, safety tools, and more – but it’s not about doing more so much as getting the right things done, explained Yusuf Mehdi, vice president of Modern Life, Search, and Devices at Microsoft.

“We see a redefinition of what we think of as personal productivity,” Mehdi told Digital Trends in a preview ahead of the launch. “It’s not about how many checklists I can get done in a day, it’s can I get done the one thing I need to get done?”

The service is essentially Teams for your family: Just as you can have personal and work profiles in an app like Outlook or Slack, you will soon be able to build a personal profile in Teams for your family, and lean into the collaboration tools Microsoft has built there to stay connected with your family.

Subscriptions will be available worldwide on April 21. Microsoft 365 Personal costs $6.99 a month, while a family of up to six can use Microsoft 365 Family for $9.99 a month.

For that price, you get a complete suite of tools to manage your personal life, ensuring you’ll never forget to pick up the milk again. The main Dashboard interface pulls together chats, calendars, and shared family logins to services such as Netflix or Hulu (Microsoft calls it “Safe”). If a family member forgets a password or other info – say, the frequent flier number associated with your Delta account – you can easily zip the info across in a shared chat.

         

       Call  1-856-514-8666 for help and support of Upgrade to Microsoft Family.


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