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Microsoft's shady practicies of Office 365 subscription tiers (youtu.be)
submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Summarizing video showing MS' horrible practicies regarding Office 365's subscription tiers, where they basically forcefully upgrade you to a higher tier subscription, and at the same time renaming the tier names so you won't notice...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My favourite part was one comment that said "If they simply let you turn off the Copilot stuff, you'd just be sitting there paying the increased fee"

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Mine too. But i think they wont let you do that to bolster their AI usage numbers in front of investors. So even if it causes people to notice and make them less money, it might still be a net positive for share price.