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Put up to four subscriptions side by side and see what you gain or lose — in plain language.

Only show differences 28 capabilities shared · 10 differ
Feature Office 365 E3 ✕ Microsoft 365 E3 ✕
Key questions
Business email Exchange Online mailbox & calendar ✓ ✓
Teams Chat, meetings and channels ✓ ✓
SharePoint & OneDrive Intranet, team sites, file storage ✓ ✓
Office apps Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook Desktop Desktop
Conditional access Entra ID Premium sign-in policies — P1
Device management Intune for laptops and phones Basic ✓
Endpoint protection Microsoft Defender on devices — Plan 1
Email threat protection Defender for Office 365 Plan 1 Plan 1
Data loss prevention Stop sensitive data leaving — —
eDiscovery Legal hold and investigations — —
Insider risk Detect risky user activity — —
Teams Phone Cloud phone system — —
Power BI Pro Reports and dashboards — —
Windows Enterprise Enterprise edition licence — ✓
Email & collaboration
Bookings ✓ ✓
Clipchamp (video editor) — ✓
Email & calendar ✓ ✓
Forms ✓ ✓
Kaizala ✓ ✓
Microsoft Loop — ✓
Planner & To-Do ✓ ✓
Skype for Business (legacy) ✓ ✓
Stream (video) ✓ ✓
Sway ✓ ✓
Teams (chat & meetings) ✓ ✓
Viva Engage (Yammer) ✓ ✓
Whiteboard ✓ ✓
Files & content
Microsoft Search ✓ ✓
Office for the web ✓ ✓
SharePoint & OneDrive ✓ ✓
Universal Print — ✓
Office apps
Office desktop apps ✓ ✓
Project ✓ ✓
Identity & access
Entra ID P1 (Conditional Access, SSO) — ✓
Multi-factor authentication — ✓
Devices & management
Basic Mobile Device Management ✓ ✓
Intune (full device management) — ✓
Microsoft 365 Lighthouse ✓ ✓
Windows Enterprise — ✓
Windows Update / Autopatch — ✓
Threat protection
Defender for Cloud Apps — ✓
Defender for Endpoint (Plan 1) — ✓
Defender for Office 365 (Plan 1) ✓ ✓
Information protection & compliance
Information protection & encryption ✓ ✓
Sensitivity labels & classification ✓ ✓
Analytics & automation
Copilot Studio / Virtual Agents ✓ ✓
Dataverse ✓ ✓
Power Apps (seeded) ✓ ✓
Power Automate (seeded) ✓ ✓
Viva Insights ✓ ✓
Viva Learning ✓ ✓
AI
Copilot chat (data protection) ✓ ✓

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