Office 365 Price Increase

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I'm not sure if this is common knowledge or not, but I received an email from Microsoft about the annual Family Office 365 subscription increasing from £79.99 to £104.99.

This increase pays for Copilot integration into all of your Microsoft apps. If you don't want or need Copilot, you can downgrade to 'the Family Classic' plan, which will keep the original price.
 
I have the family license, but I'm really asking myself whether I want to continue with it, I barely use office these days, and when I do, there isn't really anything special that requires office itself in terms of documents I've found. I've also moved away from windows too, and hate Co-Pilot within office. One of the few reasons to keep it is that my son is going through school at the moment, and they use teams / office a fair amount.

If I can sort out him with an educational license, then I'll be cancelling mine. I certainly dont feel I getting my monies worth out of it.

Time to start saving my stuff out of onedrive me thinks !


Edit: I didnt know about that downgrade option ... which removes Co-Pilot ... thanks for bringing that up.. Need to do more reading.
 
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Absolute madness with their pricing, I just use free alternatives now which are just as good.

Thing is modern office isn't even good, Feels like an android app rather than fully fledged software to me, Cant beat the older versions.

Office 2000 was epic.
 
Donnie Fisher said:
I have the family license, but I'm really asking myself whether I want to continue with it, I barely use office these days, and when I do, there isn't really anything special that requires office itself in terms of documents I've found. I've also moved away from windows too, and hate Co-Pilot within office. One of the few reasons to keep it is that my son is going through school at the moment, and they use teams / office a fair amount.

If I can sort out him with an educational license, then I'll be cancelling mine. I certainly dont feel I getting my monies worth out of it.

Time to start saving my stuff out of onedrive me thinks !


Edit: I didnt know about that downgrade option ... which removes Co-Pilot ... thanks for bringing that up.. Need to do more reading.
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Plenty of one time purchase options for Office 2021 on ebay or the usual free of charge software.

And dont forgot if work uses O365 then you might have the option of another four installations using your work account (but they would share your work Onedrive).
 
Im still rocking Office Professional 2016 that I got for ~£10 through a home use program in work years ago.

If that stops working then I will install Libre Office. M$ are so out of touch with their users these days.

Suit them better to fix the current Windows offering than breaking things and bumping up prices!

Ohh just come across this article. Never knew you could import skins/templates into Libre Office made by M$… Anyone tried this?
 
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Every year when the sub is about to run out, I find an annual sub code for sale somewhere and get that. For some reason, Argos are often the cheapest non-dodgy source.

Looking at my subscription currently, the recurring billing is indeed showing at £105, albeit not due to be paid again until January 2026. I can't see an option anywhere to downgrade to Family Classic though.
 
Google Workspace have just increased their prices as well, "because AI". No option to downgrade to a non-AI plan however :(
 
Saw the email and was immediately looking to cancel (I have a rolling monthly sub to 365 as I turn it on/off depending on how much I'm using it) - but then saw I could stick with the 'classic' version for the same price.

I understand why they obviously want to push more people to the more expensive product - but why not even mention in the email that you can keep at the original price if you don't need any of the absolutely useless AI items?
 
t2na said:
but why not even mention in the email that you can keep at the original price if you don't need any of the absolutely useless AI items?
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It's not in their financial interest to do so. They're hoping the vast majority of people blindly accept the increase. The extra revenue generated will cover those who cancel or downgrade.
 
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