Microsoft 365 Personal is now free for US college students for a year

Microsoft is giving distant Microsoft 365 Personal subscriptions to each US assemblage students. This subscription gives students free access to Microsoft’s Office apps and the Copilot AI adjunct integration for a year, aft which the students are eligible for a 50 percent discount to proceed the subscription.

While astir students person entree to acquisition versions of Microsoft 365 oregon Google Workspace, Microsoft’s connection is for student’s ain idiosyncratic Microsoft accounts, and is disposable to assertion until October 31st. Microsoft 365 Personal is usually $99.99 a year, oregon $9.99 a month, and includes 1TB of OneDrive unreality storage.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella revealed the escaped connection arsenic portion of the White House’s AI Education Task Force gathering yesterday, and announced other commitments to conscionable the Presidential AI Challenge and the AI Education Executive Order. Microsoft is backing $1.25 cardinal successful pedagogue grants, offering escaped LinkedIn AI courses for occupation seekers, students, and teachers, and expanding entree to its AI tools successful schools.