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

I found out how to go back to the classic version of your M365 subscription (i.e. without Copilot), no need to raise a ticket. This was on another forum post, definitely works in Australia, not sure about other countries. The only issue is that the change won't take effect until the end of your current subscription period, so if you're on annual like me you could be stuck with Copilot for a year (I'm currently trying to get MS to refund the difference):

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

What was the name of the other platform for $40 per year? Interested.

I ended up cancelling my MS subscription and getting a refund. I only had it a few days and realised that I can get exactly the same user experience on another platform for $40AUD per year. MS subscription offered me nothing extra that I couldn't already get elsewhere. Very disappointed.

Thanks for your comment. I'm interested to know what the alternative platform is. I was also shocked by the 29% increase in the $AUD subscription increase in MS Home. Would consider any reasonable substitute.

Yes, I get a message saying their mailbox is full. You are a tech company, why would your mailbox be full unless you were hiding something? Can't your AI answer or is that not humanly possible?

Agree but I was after cloud storage at a reasonable price, Libreoffice doesn't offer that.