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Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
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#372> Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
Well, the RAM prices had gone up and they need to buy more hard drives for your confidential documents, stored on OneDrive.
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#373Heroic. With all the problems with Microsoft products lately, they can just increase prices just like that. A sign of a healthy market and actual existing capitalism.
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#374They also are actively decreasing the value by sunsetting Publisher in October 2026 [0]. Hilariously, the suggested replacement is PowerPoint, despite it being unable to natively open .pub files. The solution for that? Run a powershell script to convert all your publisher files to (uneditable) PDF. There are many memes about inserting photos into Word, and the content flying around and breaking. My pet theory is that…
I used Publisher (2.0! and then 95) quite a bit in the mid to late 1990s. I haven't used it since then because Word now has all the features that were previously exclusive to Publisher, so its purpose has evaporated. It's certainly true that Word has bugs and frustrations but I'd be surprised if Publisher didn't too. It's very odd that they propose PowerPoint as the Publisher replacement. How do you create a fold out…
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#375You will subscribe and be happy, and when the prices increase, you will have no choice but to keep paying or you will lose access to the thing you've paid more than enough for in a lifetime, for features you never asked for.
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#376Y u no want copilot???
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#377Really weird considering google docs and libre office exist - what do you get if you pay m$?
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#378I cannot believe people here are defending this and they are like Okay price increases are normal
I guess we get what we deserve after all..
Who's coming on board the self-hosted Nextcloud etc train? choo choo !
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#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The cost and complexity and the effort required to switch away from M365 is massive. I'd say further to that is there literally isn't a similar product that exists to switch to. Nobody has developed a real alternative. It seems like most companies are more than willing to leave this entire market to Microsoft.
It depends on your needs. Many businesses get along fine with Google Apps or Zoho.
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#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tried showing a finance guy a Python version of a levelized cost of electricity spreadsheet he made. He laughed in my face and continued using Excel to drive executive decisions.
Dinosaurs gonna dinosaur. Teach his kids about the virtues of source control and testability, and the problem will be resolved in the next generation.
How are you going to get access to his kids?