Microsoft's Per-Agent Licensing Model Turns Efficiency Into a Recurring Bill

What Microsoft is selling with Agent 365 is not the agents themselves but the right to govern them — and that framing does the commercial work. The VentureBeat announcement positioned ungoverned agents as a security liability, naming the threat 'corporate double agents' to justify the $99 per month Frontier Suite tier. The move converts a deployment decision into a compliance decision: organizations that refuse the governance layer are not saving money, they are accepting risk. That framing is engineered — the risk is real, but Microsoft is also the party…