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Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewal
(www.tomshardware.com)
apparently super easy to get it forever free
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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The fact that people are subscribing to office software is the biggest problem here. What sort of technical breakthroughs require so many updates that a subscription is necessary?
As much as they are pushing to stop 1 time purchases of office, they do still offer it. I purchased a license for like $20 off a discount site for Office 2021, and i have no clue why people need a subscription plan for this. It would take some very specific needs for that to ever be needed and I'm sure a huge percentage would be just fine with the 1 time purchase that lasts 3-4 years of support.
As for businesses that part stinks... once you get integrated with all the services offered, it's going to take a lot to back out since it's not just office they are probably subscribed to but everything else that enterprise has to offer. They are absolutely banking on people to suck it up and accept the position they are in and give in. It's awful, but at the same time if your business went all in and didn't anticipate this then they didn't do their job if you ask me when vetting everything. This feels similar to the recent buyout of VMware and are now pushing insane new license costs. The problem is they went to high where despite the effort it will take to change products people have to. We can only hope Microsoft is on the edge of crossing that line.
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I've been using one drive for my phone photos backup, joplin notes store and keepass. It seemed like the most economical solution cus other vendors don't really offer 1TB, it's usually something stupid like jumping from 200GB or 2TB. Don't know if I should invest in a NAS or something, but I just don't wanna deal with the hardware and networking if I have to open some ports at home , unless I can use cloudflare as well
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Phew, this was a good reminder since I was meaning to cancel my subscription anyway. It was going to auto renew in 2 days. 😬
Make it too expensive and people will switch to Google docs.
Excel is the deal breaker on that. My last company was all Google products and auth, but I still had to buy Excel for the accounting and HR teams.
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I guess I should be happy I applied a work discount, which extended my subscription until Oktober 2026 or something.