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Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

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Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

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Post by thewebguyd »

0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #48
laweijfmvo wrote: post #43

Maybe I get it, isn’t this forcing employees to pay for their own AI?

The idea is that users can circumvent IT policies which explicitly have not enabled or banned such products. Microsoft is hoping to sneak under the tent to enable more subscriptions directly from users if they cannot get companies to pay. Which is a bold play. At my company, were I to try and smuggle data out to a third party-that is normally an insta-termination level offense.

Yeah this is MS spitting in the face of their actual customers, the IT teams that buy, deploy, and manage their software.

I’m a sysadmin and this is basically MS saying “fuck you” to my face.

Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

tsimionescu wrote: post #19
danudey wrote: post #8

If Copilot was so great, surely I would have been asked to opt-in to a better Office 365 family plan with Copilot enabled, rather than trying to dark-pattern me into paying for a more expensive Copilot-enabled plan against my will (forcing me to attempt to cancel in order to be offered my old plan). It probably doesn't help that Microsoft is using 'Copilot' to mean so many different things - their Office AI integrati…

What's this "Office 365" you're mentioning? Microsoft has, I kid you not, actually renamed Office 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Of which Copilot is one part, like Word and Excel. Yes, a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription gives you access to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Copilot. Please don't confuse it with GitHub Copilot, a completely different product. Or with Copilot Search in Bing.

So they would like you to believe they renamed Office 365 so you overpurchase: Office 365, which is just the office suite and email, is a separate set of SKUs from Microsoft 365, which also includes Windows Enterprise, Entra, etc.

Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

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Post by [deleted] »

oefrha wrote: post #45
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean looking at it.. .NET as a brand name was obviously chosen because the Internet was hot, and also because Microsoft has no taste. The Internet is no longer so hot, and now they have a name that has no hot implication to it. So maybe rebrand, which after all is the general tactic of people who have no taste.

Waiting for a rebranding to .AI Core Copilot 12 Fall Creators Update Service Pack 3.

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Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

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Post by Moto7451 »

zamadatix wrote: post #38
csb6 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is it with Microsoft and confusing product naming schemes? There was Xbox One X/Xbox One S/Xbox Series S/Xbox Series X. Or .NET (previously .NET Core) vs. .NET Framework (which everyone used to just call “.NET”).

I'm still hoping for "Xbox One Series X" next

I mean… they made that. The Xbox Series X is a faster Xbox Series S which is a faster XBox One…

Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

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Post by tsimionescu »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #72
tsimionescu wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's this "Office 365" you're mentioning? Microsoft has, I kid you not, actually renamed Office 365 to Microsoft 365 Copilot. Of which Copilot is one part, like Word and Excel. Yes, a Microsoft 365 Copilot subscription gives you access to Microsoft Word and Microsoft Copilot. Please don't confuse it with GitHub Copilot, a completely different product. Or with Copilot Search in Bing.

So they would like you to believe they renamed Office 365 so you overpurchase: Office 365, which is just the office suite and email, is a separate set of SKUs from Microsoft 365, which also includes Windows Enterprise, Entra, etc.

There really is nothing officially called "Office 365" anymore, or "Office" in general. You're right that they have some (confusing) distinctions between Microsoft 365 and Microsoft 365 Copilot. For example, indeed you can purchase a "Microsoft 365" subscription that doesn't give you the enterprise AI features - but the app your employees will install to get access to Excel and Word is still called "Microsoft 365 Copilot" even if your org only has a Microsoft 365 subscription - at least on mobile.

Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

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Post by SoullessSilent »

chupchap wrote: post #73

Large companies negotiate and get lower rates, but individuals get the sticker price. So it is in Microsoft's interest if more people took up the individual option. That said, I don't see it working in companies where everything is locked down.

Next up, new job requirements added to job listings. MS 365 required.

Re: Microsoft allows use of personal Microsoft 365 subscriptions at work

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Post by hetman »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #55
danudey wrote: post #8

If Copilot was so great, surely I would have been asked to opt-in to a better Office 365 family plan with Copilot enabled, rather than trying to dark-pattern me into paying for a more expensive Copilot-enabled plan against my will (forcing me to attempt to cancel in order to be offered my old plan). It probably doesn't help that Microsoft is using 'Copilot' to mean so many different things - their Office AI integrati…

Oh, shit. I could have gotten my old plan? Yay. >sigh< I assumed I was just stuck paying more and didn't research it.

Almost. After battling with support for several months, a friend of mine recently learned that versions of Office without AI do not allow you to create Teams meetings that last longer than an hour. Makes me wonder what other features they're leaving out.
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