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Microsoft 365 sees 43% price hike thanks to Copilot — existing customers safe until renewal
(www.tomshardware.com)
apparently super easy to get it forever free
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2025
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Phew, this was a good reminder since I was meaning to cancel my subscription anyway. It was going to auto renew in 2 days. 😬
I've been using one drive for my phone photos backup, joplin notes store and keepass. It seemed like the most economical solution cus other vendors don't really offer 1TB, it's usually something stupid like jumping from 200GB or 2TB. Don't know if I should invest in a NAS or something, but I just don't wanna deal with the hardware and networking if I have to open some ports at home , unless I can use cloudflare as well
Look into Syncthing if you have a home server - very easy phone backups that cost nothing.
Ya but wouldn't I need to open up ports or host a VPN ? Otherwise my phone won't backup unless I'm at home
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Immich is a self hosted service that imitates Google photos Tailscale is an easy way to access your network remotely
Make it too expensive and people will switch to Google docs.
Excel is the deal breaker on that. My last company was all Google products and auth, but I still had to buy Excel for the accounting and HR teams.
Um excel certainly has its places, but accounting? Don't they have actual dedicated software for accounting? HR? Like payroll? Again don't they have actual software for that?
And I was thinking personal use, whose costs were posted. $100 a year, fuck that.
It's hard to believe, but I work at a Fortune 100 company that's still heavily reliant on Excel.
Sure, we have specific software as System of Record (Oracle suite, mainly). But for all the day to day estimating and calculating and reporting and other noodling, people routinely export to Excel and play with numbers from there.
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If they actually bundled a game pass subscription with it and made a proper Microsoft complete subscription they could have softened the bad press they're getting on this (and giving customers something they've wanted for a while)
That and the fact that they've nearly doubled the price of the subscription to add a limited credit based feature just looks pretty slimy
Why on earth would they bundle gamepass into Office365? Office365 is pretty much used for business and educational institutions. Everybody else is a rounding error.
The overlap between Office365 owners and Xbox gamers is extremely small.
You'd just end up pissing everybody off by combining them
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"They've added how much to the price by adding this gamer nonsense?! I don't need that crap, I want office software!"
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"They've added how much to the price by including fucking PowerPoint and Outlook?! I don't need that crap, I want to play games!"
And not to defend MS, but a 43% increase isn't nearly doubling. A 100% increase would be doubling.
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I guess I should be happy I applied a work discount, which extended my subscription until Oktober 2026 or something.