MS Office 365 renewal price -- very dishonest

I have had MS Office for many years. My Office 365 subscription runs $69.99/year, which I’m OK with – 1 TB of storage and all.

I recently got an email that the next time my subscription renews, the price will be $99.99/year. And I’ve noticed that Copilot is constantly intruding – very annoying.

I am convinced that Microsoft upgraded customers to a higher tier without permission or options, and have made the “Basic” subscription invisible. Upselling us without telling us. And while I like Office, I do NOT want their AI Copilot.

I don’t need Office the way I did years ago, so I’m emptying out my One Drive and using Libre Office in anticipation of ditching Office 365. These types of antics make customers leave.

Here’s a video about what Microsoft is doing with subscriptions – very dishonest.

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LibreOffice has meet our home computer needs for at least 10 years. Please consider running it on Linux.

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StackSocial offers local install of Office products for a one-time price. You can then buy an external disk to duplicate the cloud storage.

Why subscribe when you can buy.

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I went to my MS account, Manage Subscription, Cancel Subscription, then it let me choose to renew at exactly what I have now…

Microsoft 365 Personal Classic $69.99/year

The back story…

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My MS subscription has been $69.99 with 1 TB cloud storage. Most cloud storage services cost more than that, so I’ve kept MS for that reason.

What I was saying is that you can buy MS Office and a disk for storage for about the same price as a 1 year subscription. Granted the drive would be local but for many people that is not an issue.

I live in a hurricane zone, so I like everything online and on local portable USBs. Plus my kids like to mine the 25,000 family photos dating back to the 1930s. It’s a private online digital museum.

LibreOffice works great. I have used it on Linux, Mac, and I believe Windows (haven’t touched in years). However, I rarely use it these days. I use Google docs. It’s free and has 15GB of storage. Why not just move to Google?

I have a Google and Microsoft plan. I split up my data.

please listen to this person.