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Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewal (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 60 points 1 day ago (2 children)

For existing customers, the price hike won't be kicking in until plan renewal, and there are options to downgrade the plan. Those who want to avoid using AI can downgrade the plan to the "Classic" or "Basic" Microsoft 365 plans.

Thankfully we can roll back to the "Classic Family Plan" without the AI features. But annoying that they automatically switched plans and I had to switch back. If I didn't see this article I'd be up for a big price hike when it renewed.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 11 points 13 hours ago

But annoying that they automatically switched plans and I had to switch back.

Should be illegal.

[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Everyone experiencing this should be thinking "man, I gotta ditch Microsoft before they try to fuck me again"

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

NO one using Microsoft is doing so by choice. If we haven't learned in 30 years, then fuck us.

[–] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Their office suite is still the winner.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Not really. Office software has reached diminishing returns over a decade ago.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 6 points 12 hours ago

Nah, it's all hinges on Excel. It's still unbeatable at this point.

[–] RickyWars@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Absolutely. This has made me acutely aware that my days with MS are numbered.