Why is there a price increase in Office 365 annual subscription? Am I getting some new stuff? I'm in Malaysia.

That is not a price increase .... it's downright thievery. A 28% increase ,,,, I wish MY income was increased by that! I guess it's time to ditch Micro$oft and look open source or basically ANYONE else for a better deal.. Yeah, like MS need more money from subscriptions. It's bad enough they changed to an annual subscription, so you don't even own the software. Just a mechanism to keep charging you and increasing the price year after year until you can no longer afford it!

Don't try and hide this behind currency fluctuations, it is insulting.

My subscription increase is 28% in Singapore and no currency changes amount to that. As other posters have noted it is Microsoft penalising customers for their AI investments rather than take a marginal (minuscule in fact ) hit on their gouged profits.

A better option would be to allow a basic subscription version using the key products that I suspect the majority of users use, Word, Excel, OneDrive storage.

Remember the good old days when you actually just purchased the product and had it for life, now the yearly subscription is the same, if not more, that the one off cost used to be. No wonder Microsoft profits have soared, nothing to do with improvements in tech, just raping customers for profit.

Shame on you

If you prefer to use Microsoft 365 apps without Copilot at all. Please refer to the following to try to switch back to your old subscription.

• Visitaccount.microsoft.com/services.
• Select the Microsoft 365 Personal subscription you have and select “Manage”.
• Select “Unsubscribe”.
• View “Switch to a subscription that suits you better*” and select “Microsoft 365 Personal Classic”.*
• After following the instructions to complete your subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew to Classic when its existing subscription expires.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-to-disable-or-remove-copilot-in-office-365/fc12cf79-3f93-4db9-8213-07ad13e16756?correlationid=8a348e39-8d5a-4167-a55c-bdcf7e29b571&from=ContactUsWebBCQR

Can confirm this works at least in NZ. Thank you so much!

It's so skeevy that microsoft changed our subscriptions to be automatically "upgraded" to include ai, when most of us don't want the ai, we just want what we originally signed up for.

This should've been an email notification to say they now offer our current sub with ai that we can choose to upgrade to, instead of an email notification to say our subscription has changed & will cost more without our approval..

This should be illegal, I hope there's legal ramifications for MS doing this.

I legit just want the cloud storage to backup my computer, its the only reason I pay. If they do this again I'll be finding another provider.

Yes, agreed. Looks like they are trying to make or meet their sales numbers. There are a couple of options.

1. Harvey Norman is doing a sale at RM 280.

00 for MS 365 Personal. Check them out.

2. Find out if your hardware / software reseller might have legal product keys available at the much older prices, I noticed this on Shopee Lazada.
3. Black Friday sale is on. Check it out.
4. Finally, get some other platform that treasures and values you as a customer.

For cloud storage there is a great option from G, 2TB at RM30 per month.

Also check out other suites that might offer you the capabilities you need.

Best.

My earlier price was below MYR300, but now it's above. :(

Just found out the subscription for next year will be RM440, that's insane.

From RM265 to RM309 in a year, then next year will be RM440.

Microsoft, this is getting to expensive!