Office 365 Price Increase

They're making us pay for their AI expenditure.

I dumped it as my sub expires on Feb 3rd. I've been using it for years but primarily for the 1TB of OneDrive that my NAS backs up to. Given that modern office is bloated garbage anyway compared to what it once was it is an easy decision. Since my main daily drivers are MacOS and Linux LibreOffice was a safe bet along with Koofr for storage.
 
Irish_Tom said:
Having slept on it, I've decided to cancel my subscription altogether.

I already pay for Google Workspace and use Google Docs for work, so I'll see how I get on without MS Office and resubscribe if I can't cope without it.
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I do wish I could drop it too - but I'm so reliant on Excel and haven't been able to make Google Sheets come close to what I get out of Excel.
 
Irish_Tom said:
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.
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Do you know how to downgrade? I cant see the option.
 
Irish_Tom said:
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.
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I hadn't heard about this but the price increase for Copilot is crazy. I had a look in my account but couldn't see an option to downgrade. Perhaps it'll show up nearer my renewal time? I'll definitely downgrade as I really don't see the need for Copilot. But then considering how much I use Office, just Excel for tracking some medical data, maybe I'll drop it all together? However I do like the OneDrive function. Mind you I've only used 2% of my storage! :p
 
MarcLister said:
I hadn't heard about this but the price increase for Copilot is crazy. I had a look in my account but couldn't see an option to downgrade. Perhaps it'll show up nearer my renewal time? I'll definitely downgrade as I really don't see the need for Copilot. But then considering how much I use Office, just Excel for tracking some medical data, maybe I'll drop it all together? However I do like the OneDrive function. Mind you I've only used 2% of my storage! :p
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You have to click on 'Cancel' and then the options come up.
 
Binned off our 365 family plan as we primarily use MacOS and iOS (iPad) now and are well below the 5GB OneDrive limit. Only kept it running until the sub expires. Pages / Numbers on Mac does a decent enough job for our home use and can always use Open Office if we need something more ‘powerful’.
 
I have had Office 365 family for £55.99/yr through the home use programme for several years. Received an email notification that it will increase to £73.49 from next year.

I’ve not used any of the Copilot features. I can see that you get a certain number of AI credits each month.

Good to know that you can downgrade back to the non-copilot model.
 
I just logged in to check as my family sub renews in April.

I've told my siblings that the price has gone up and now people are gonna have to chip in else I'm not renewing! Sod £105 for Office annually.... My main use case is OneNote which I use for official scanned docs archiving and securing my 2FA codes, online account details, bank details and so on in a neatly organised system in there. I could just shift all that into a different system on something google and ditch MS entirely otherwise.

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Cancelled! Now uninstalled Office and did a manual clean of remnants too. First time in forever that my PC has not had Office installed. Went with Libre Office instead which is much more streamlined and all's good. Moved all my OneNote stuff into Google Keep as well as the functionality is not too far off so that works and encryption is done during transmission as well as during storage, so as long as my Google Acc is secured, then so is my data in Keep which I am fine with.
 
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I cancelled mine last year, only really used Outlook for emails and Word once or twice a year. I now use Thunderbird for emails and notepad for text. I also have a Linux VM and that has free office app's if needed.
 
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I've just made sure that I'm up to 5yrs stacked on my "365 Family" account via product codes and then cancelled and choose to drop to "Classic".
So right now my subscription ends August 2029 and then it "should" revert to Classic - if Classic still exists by then.
 
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