Subscriptions like these have always been a scam.
Oh shit maybe we'll see someone companies switch to an alternative instead of paying microshit more money
This is for the personal licenses, not business or enterprise.
wack
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.
But annoying that they automatically switched plans and I had to switch back.
Should be illegal.
Everyone experiencing this should be thinking "man, I gotta ditch Microsoft before they try to fuck me again"
I spent about 20 minutes today trying to get Copilot on Word to tell me how to disable Copilot on Word. Worth every penny.
Just call the sales team and get the classic plan. No more having to deal with Copilot and you get the old price back.
The clippy we all deserved
I doubt Microsoft Word has changed that much for me to theoretically subscribe just to see it's 365 counterpart. Still rocking the 2007 version.
I will forever hate 2007's ribbon with a passion.
Microsoft probably added or changed unnecessary shit to the OOXML format that your old version can't handle.
Do all documents open without any problems?
apparently super easy to get it forever free
"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...
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
Immich is a self hosted service that imitates Google photos Tailscale is an easy way to access your network remotely
Look into Syncthing if you have a home server - very easy phone backups that cost nothing.
Don't even need home server, regular PC with a disk will do. Just fireup syncthing on both devices and voila. Can set syncthing to start on pc
Yep, absolutely.
Although when doing so, that would make your regular PC a server. Doesn't stop it continuing to be a regular PC as well.
Ya but wouldn't I need to open up ports or host a VPN ? Otherwise my phone won't backup unless I'm at home
You need a way to connect to your home server from the internet, yes. You can do it easily using cloudflare tunnels or using one of the many vpn systems for your phone.
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.
You don't have to contact them anymore.
That's what the support person said to me as well, but I didn't get that option when I tried to cancel the subscription. My guess is that it wasn't rolled out globally just yet, so if anyone didn't find this option you can just contact the sales team to downgrade.
This should be illegal.
I agree.
I guess I should be happy I applied a work discount, which extended my subscription until Oktober 2026 or something.
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.
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