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Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

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Re: Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

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Post by 7thpower »

I have a family license and am more or less stuck with it, but for my business I will be moving things over to gsuite so I can be price gouged by them instead. It will cost more, but I’ll have Gemini, which is actually useful.

The last straw, aside from the price increases, was switching my office.com landing page to copilot. It feels like a new low, even for Microsoft.

You just lost $6/mo., Microsoft. I hope it was worth it.

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Post by abrouwers »

jack_tripper wrote: post #12
Mistletoe wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They saw what the Xbox division is doing and said give me some of that.

Xbox spent $75 billion buying activision-blizzard, an acquisition which is very far away from making its money back, so price hikes were inevitable to cover the massive money hole that left. Of course this price hike is inevitably dragging Xbox brand into the hole long term, but those in charge of the price hikes probably expect not to be around when that happens,.

I don't think the price hikes have been received terribly well - their Ultimate game pass service is now $30 a month (in the US), which seems to be pricing out a lot of their members. It now makes a lot more sense for many to just buy games outright.

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Post by boh »

If most companies had to for some reason revert to Windows XP and MS Office from 1998, they would barely be impacted. There is literally no benefit to this subscription model besides paying for what you already have and what you don't want. None of this stuff needs to be on the cloud even for bigger firms. For the I need/like X in Office 365, it's not worth it from a costs perspective.

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Post by ambicapter »

sneak wrote: post #22
Bombthecat wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Open source... But yeah.. ms won this game

There is no foss competitor to Excel.

Google Docs works fine for most people though (not FOSS, but most Office customers don't care).

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Post by bhouston »

Haven't opened Microsoft Office in I think 7 years. Haven't also used Apple's Office suite either - it is just Google Docs/presentations/sheets/drive for everything. I feel my life is better. They were massive installs and I prefer to have everything online all the time anyhow - just safer and more convenient.

Re: Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices

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Post by munchbunny »

puttycat wrote: post #6

Is there any reason to use Office nowadays except for being able to open documents sent by institutions where secretaries still use Word/Excel/PPT? (universities, etc.)

In practice, it's like how having Adobe Reader used to be. You mostly don't need it, but occasionally you need it for interoperability with other people, such as lawyers.

Otherwise, I keep it around for the desktop Excel app. Still my preferred spreadsheet app, even though Google Sheets does pretty much all of what I need.

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