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COPILOT IS NOW A PAID FEATURE?????? hell nah, microsoft be banking on their users.
Wait, they think people want Copilot? Like enough to pay money for it?
Copilot Is literally ChatGPT With a diff logo and name.
They are banking on customers being too invested in office to switch.
It's a safe bet. I wonder if enterprise pricing is that high.
For anyone who doesn't already know the good FOSS alternatives:
additionally Onlyoffice (But Onlyoffice isnt fully open source)
Fun story, it's called office 365 as when you see the price you'll turn 365 degrees and walk away.
Ok that doesn't really work but God I love that stupid joke.
Anyway I haven't used office personally for ages and never seem to run into real compatibility issues with the meager personal/business overlap in my situation.
It made me chuckle a little imaging that you do a full 365 degree spin Infront of Microsoft and then walk away (in an awkward way), instead of 180 degrees to walk the opposite direction haha
Technically speaking with 365* of rotation if you are far enough away you will be able to walk past microsoft, so this is possible.
365 spin, then realizing your mistake and awkwardly walking backwards out of the room
Preaching to the choir here but LibreOffice has been excellent since my MSOffice license expired. Unless you're working in an enterprise setting with MS-specific macros or online collaboration, there's no reason to be paying for basic document editing software in 2025.
There are also self-hosted and open-sourced collaborative editing suites available that I haven't tried yet, but there are plenty of options
Does it save files locally or only cloud? I want to move away from google docs/sheets.
I think locally only, LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.
Even if you need microsoft office for some random file you can use their free web version. Well it's been a couple years since I last needed it I'm assuming it still exists
worlds most over glorified over priced office website that runs like a slug
I'm so glad I work in an industry where I can get away with using Libre Office.
Subscriptions like these have always been a scam.
I use ms office 2007 it runs perfectly in wine and still has the cool version of wordart
Some people can't because they need updated proofing tools and that version no longer has updates.
word art > proofing tools
I’ve had nothing but issues administrating Office 365. A price hike like this is incentivizing me to push other products like Google workspace.
Nice parts are definitely user email tools and some of the audit tools, but I keep finding myself in scenarios where I get error 500s on the server side when I pop open dev tools and it’s like I don’t want to tell my users that they’re SOL but they sort of are if I can’t resolve some error on Microsoft’s o365 servers. Microsoft likes to ask what I did to fix the case if I fix it before they do and I just laugh and not rely to those. They can pay me extra for that or hire me if they want that info.
