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I guess I should be happy I applied a work discount, which extended my subscription until Oktober 2026 or something.

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 72 points 2 days ago (3 children)

You can call the sales team and ask them to change your subscription to the classic version to opt-out of Copilot and get the old price back, if you still need the subscription over changing to other open source office suites.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 68 points 2 days ago (24 children)
[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So Libre Office is free?

If it does what regular office suit does i would happily pay 300 dollars for it to have it as mine and not be fucked with

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[–] Frostbeard@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Fuck the MS suite is such garbage. My work was sold in for Teams with all the BS. Now I have to either map up the filepath creating what we used to have, or I can't see the file folder and make a call at the same time. Onenote with it's arbitrary syncing. And good luck finding it again since it stored at some random place if you loose access.

Word and excel is decent, but for a person who likes to tinker with versions it's a nightmare to invite people to edit it.

Cluncky interface, slow and bloated all around

[–] hansolo@lemm.ee 21 points 1 day ago

The degree to which MS Teams can get fucked by the horse it rode in on is proportional to the number of registry entries their bloatware has on first install.

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 day ago (7 children)

why not just do:

microsoft 365: 6.99

microsoft 365 + copilot: 9.99

blobcat, think

[–] Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They did exactly that, except they changed the name of the original subscription to "classic" and upgraded everyone to the more expensive plan without asking.

This is actually illegal in some countries, and I hope they get fined for it.

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[–] wioum@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

You damn well know why they dont do that $$$

[–] Romkslrqusz@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago

… second paragraph of the article:

In addition to the basic plans getting Copilot rolled in, there are now additional "Basic," "Personal Classic," and "Family Classic" tiers without Copilot and "other advanced features" added for users who do not use AI in their workflows

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[–] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Would I see Copilot in the OHook'd Office 365? If not, yay!

[–] j4yt33@feddit.org 33 points 2 days ago (6 children)
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