Microsoft said Thursday that it will increase the prices of Office productivity software subscriptions for commercial and government clients on July 1. The company's Office applications, which include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook, have been facing increased competition in recent years from Google . "We are continuously investing and innovating our platform for the future," Nicole Herskowitz, corporate vice president for Microsoft 365 and Copilot, wrote in a blog post . "In the last year,