A little under 3 years ago, Microsoft introduced the Microsoft 365 brand at Microsoft Inspire.
How exciting to have Office 365, Windows 10 with Device Management and Security features all in one bundle!
How daunting having to update your terminology and provide calm for the stirred confusion.
Well just 3 weeks ago, Microsoft announced further changes to existing Office 365 plans bringing more across to the Microsoft 365 brand and these changes are happening tomorrow*! (See Microsoft Blog)
Beginning with O365 Home and Personal, these become M365 Family and M365 Personal.
Then we have a new trinity of Business Plans with O365 Essentials becoming M365 Business Basic, O365 Business Premium becoming M365 Business Standard, and M365 Business becoming M365 Business Premium. 
This last one really hits home as we have spent quite some time comparing and differentiating between O365 Business Premium and M365 Business only to re-learn and be a little tongue-tied when making new terminology faux pas.
The changes don’t stop there.
The Desktop Suites Office 365 Business and Office 365 ProPlus will be renamed Microsoft 365 Apps for Business and Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise.
Fortunately, their ProductIDs remain the same if you are using configuration files for the Office Deployment Tool. (See Microsoft Docs for more information)
Tip: If you are changing over from O365 Enterprise E3 to M365 Business (Premium), make sure you re-install the corresponding desktop client and update the ODT configuration file to use O365BusinessRetail instead of O365ProPlusRetail.
Lastly announced just last week in this Tech Community blog:
Office 365 Groups will become Microsoft 365 Groups.
It was also announced 3 years ago in this Microsoft Blog that from the 13ᵗʰ of October 2020, only the Office Clients in Mainstream Support will be able to connect to Office 365 Services – meaning the Microsoft 365 Apps for Business/Enterprise and Office 2019 Clients, as Office 2013 and Office 2016 are already out of Mainstream Support.
So if you have survived the End of Extended Support for Windows 7, Server 2008/R2, SQL 2008/R2 then you must be ready – and a little relieved for the extension – for the EoS for Exchange Server 2010 and Office 2010 on the 13ᵗʰ of October 2020.
If you have been keeping your head in the sand and avoided a roadmap to migrate to Exchange 2016/2019 or Exchange Online then get on it.
Email is the oft the first workload to migrate to Office 365 and if you can manage it try to get the ball rolling in shifting data to OneDrive/SharePoint Online and of course say Hello to Microsoft Teams! (Stay tuned for next blog on MS Teams)
Particularly with the unprecedented circumstances that we are going through, if there is any chance to facilitate a productive continuity of your business by Working From Home then Speak to your IT Manager! Speak to your IT Provider! Speak to me!!
Take this opportunity for when everyone comes out of isolation back into a post-pandemic world you are going to want to be back in operation with a head start in your Digital Transformation journey with an arsenal of online productivity tools.
Outlook Anywhere is so passé, embrace Outlook Everywhere.
M365 Senpai 