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

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

Hi, you can contact Microsoft Support to remain on your "Classic" version if you wish. The advantage I see with the new subscription is that it includes CoPilot, Microsoft Teams (allowing group calls for up to 30 hours with up to 300 people), and more. I’ve decided to give it a try for a year and switch back to the "Classic" version at my next renewal if the additional features are not that useful.

It has gone up in Australia too. From $11.00 a month to $16. Again totally outside of inflation and a disgusting price gouge when people are already suffering with the cost of living. How they can justify it I have no idea. I will be unsubscribing before my next billing cycle and moving solely over to my included Apple equivalent programs.

I just hope Microsoft can survive, they must be really hurting financially to increase their prices so much...pffft

If you want an alternative, you can try the online versions of Excel, Word and PowerPoint, which are available via OneDrive online at https://onedrive.live.com.

Or, if you prefer something that lets you save locally, try open source software such as LibreOffice.

I don’t mind hinting What Program it iS.

Can you hint at what the other platform is? My challenge is I need to be able to open and save to Word format for collaboration with clients.