I spent about 20 minutes today trying to get Copilot on Word to tell me how to disable Copilot on Word. Worth every penny.
The clippy we all deserved
First thing I do with the Google Assistent on Android Phones is to tell it to disable itself. Cool thing is that it does.
You can call the sales team and ask them to change your subscription to the classic version to opt-out of Copilot and get the old price back, if you still need the subscription over changing to other open source office suites.
the only problem with onlyoffice is that it's electron.
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.
Everyone experiencing this should be thinking "man, I gotta ditch Microsoft before they try to fuck me again"
But annoying that they automatically switched plans and I had to switch back.
Should be illegal.
"You remember that llm we spend billions of dollars on, that nobody asked for? Well we're done half baking it into all our apps and now we're almost doubling our prices to help pay for it all."
The logic of the utterly deranged...
Oh shit maybe we'll see someone companies switch to an alternative instead of paying microshit more money
Wait, they think people want Copilot? Like enough to pay money for it?
They are banking on customers being too invested in office to switch.
Clippy is back!
GOZER
The choice is made. The Traveller has come.
VENKMAN
We didn't choose anything?!! I didn't think of an image, did you?
SPENGLER
No.
WINSTON
My mind's a total void!
[They all look at Ray]
RAY
I couldn't help it! It just popped in
there!
VENKMAN
What? What just popped in there?
SPENGLER
I have a radical idea... The door swings both ways. We could reverse the particle flow through the gate...
RAY
How?
SPENGLER
... we'll resize a table in Word
VENKMAN
Excuse me, Egon. You said resizing a table was bad...
RAY
[with realisation]
... resize the table...
VENKMAN
You're going to endanger us. You're going to endanger our client; the nice lady who paid us in advance before she turned into a dog
SPENGLER
Not necessarily. There's definitely a very slim chance we'll survive..
WINSTON
...
RAY
...
VENKMAN
I love this plan! I'm excited to be a part of it! Let's do it!
worlds most over glorified over priced office website that runs like a slug
why not just do:
microsoft 365: 6.99
microsoft 365 + copilot: 9.99
You damn well know why they dont do that $$$
… second paragraph of the article:
In addition to the basic plans getting Copilot rolled in, there are now additional "Basic," "Personal Classic," and "Family Classic" tiers without Copilot and "other advanced features" added for users who do not use AI in their workflows
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
I'm so glad I work in an industry where I can get away with using Libre Office.
Fuck the MS suite is such garbage. My work was sold in for Teams with all the BS. Now I have to either map up the filepath creating what we used to have, or I can't see the file folder and make a call at the same time. Onenote with it's arbitrary syncing. And good luck finding it again since it stored at some random place if you loose access.
Word and excel is decent, but for a person who likes to tinker with versions it's a nightmare to invite people to edit it.
Cluncky interface, slow and bloated all around
The degree to which MS Teams can get fucked by the horse it rode in on is proportional to the number of registry entries their bloatware has on first install.
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.
I use ms office 2007 it runs perfectly in wine and still has the cool version of wordart
There are home users of Microsoft 365?
I'm not shaming but I kinda am. Like WTF is wrong with you? You pay for free shit.
Office employees don't get to choose.
Subscriptions like these have always been a scam.
COPILOT IS NOW A PAID FEATURE?????? hell nah, microsoft be banking on their users.
Phew, this was a good reminder since I was meaning to cancel my subscription anyway. It was going to auto renew in 2 days. 😬
If they actually bundled a game pass subscription with it and made a proper Microsoft complete subscription they could have softened the bad press they're getting on this (and giving customers something they've wanted for a while)
That and the fact that they've nearly doubled the price of the subscription to add a limited credit based feature just looks pretty slimy
bundled a game pass subscription
Most of the money MS gets from Office365 is from business users, not home users. I have a feeling that trying to sell game pass to corporate clients isn't going to be a huge hit...
"The cost of running the hallucination machine is too expensive so instead of charging people who want to use it, we have instead decided to charge everyone who uses any of our services even if they don't want to use the hallucination machine"
Wow Lotta folks gonna discover that LibreOffice is much better than MS Office. Not to mention, free.
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