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Nobody wants Copilot Pro AI for Office 365 — so Microsoft will force-bundle it and raise the price (pivot-to-ai.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

or just use LibreOffice

If you work in an office or for an office or are connected to an office ... let them pay for it and use the software on their systems.

It's also a great excuse to disconnect from the office anyway ... if someone calls you after hours to do work ... tell them you need to access your computer at the office and won't do the work until you get back to your desk.

Otherwise, if there is no requirement from anyone and you're just doing some word processing yourself at home or doing some basic spreadsheets ... just use Open Source Software ... there's plenty of them around.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

the catch is when you really need specifically O365 for some reason, e.g. we had to get the O365 download version for my kid's schooling because that was the specific version the "this is how you do office shit" classes were taught against, the online O365 didn't cut it

of course even the teacher was telling the kids "look you should just use libreoffice" lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the thing .... most people who are doing work themselves at home and for their own purposes, never need something like O365 ... when it comes to schooling it should be the same, unless the school is doing very specific particular thing just to justify using O365, then it shouldn't be required

Word processing is very simple ... I have an old Underwood typewriter from 1921 ... I can write and format a letter using it if I wanted to ... it shouldn't be any more complicated than that.

Microsoft pushing their software is just a cheap salesman selling snake oil that you don't need and doesn't do anything special.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

you are now getting fatuous in your evangelism and should desist

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