Microsoft office

[ikas]

"To reflect the value we’ve added over the past decade, address rising costs and enable us to continue delivering new innovations, we’re increasing the price of your subscription.
Effective 14 February 2025, the price for Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions will increase from GBP 79.99* per year to GBP 104.99* per year"

Since we only ever use (on three Apple devices) Word and Excel and have seen no improvements which I needed in the last 20 years I think it is time to look elsewhere.

The price increase is due to inclusion of co-pilot. If you don't use it you can revert to £79.99. They make it difficult to cancel co-pilot but I can post details if you want.

[Spelk]

That would be worth sharing Ikas. I'm sure a lot of people would prefer not to pay £25 for co-pilot.

[ikas]

This worked for me Spelk. Caveat - it was a few months ago when my sub renewed. I think you can make the change in advance of renewal as well as at renewal.

If you don’t want to use co-pilot log-in to your Microsoft account. Select manage subscription then at next screen cancel subscription. This opens a new screen with two options - one with co-pilot and one without (“classic subscription”). If you select that you will be charged at the usual price. Several hoops to go through as they charge £0 to your card which needs verification etc.

[AntonyMMM]

I'm still using Office 2013 .....works fine for me !

[Spelk]

As Ikas said - I found that going to my account and applying to turn off the MS 365 Renewal or Cancelling the subscription both come up with the option to switch to the "Classic" version which does not have Copilot and is about £25 cheaper.
Beware - Note that if you confirm that you want to cancel the subscription it seems it will stop immediately and then you may or may not get a refund for the time you had left.
Worth noting - when I had asked to cancel the Renewal and also when I asked to Cancel in both cases they offered me the option to have an extra two months for free so that rather than renewing on 1st October my subscription would continue to 1st December. That's effectively a 15% diacount so worth doing even if you have no intention of not continuing with the subscription.

[KGarrad]

Checking my version of Word, I seem to have Microsoft Office Home and Student 2016.
Product contains Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote.

No Co-Pilot, but I do have the annoying One-Drive!