Subscription increase

Yes, mine went up $50 AUD. I just got notified and I just turned off the re-occuring billing.

Quite sure I won't be the only one.

It's possible to get a cheaper subscription elsewhere each year as a one off code via a retailer.

I do the same with my internet security every year as it's cheaper to do that than subscibe.

Seriously it's a massive price hike.

BTW after posting, Iam seeing pop ups now wanting me to try office 365 for free 🤪

For us in Australia mine also went up, AUD 109.00/year to AUD 159.00/year . My scenario is I have a Office 365 account at work and also my Personal Account. My personal account I use on my (personal) Microsoft Surface Go and Microsoft Surface Duo 2 smartphone. Recenlty I also upgraded to a paid Google Account for $30 Annual which gives me 100 GB of cloud storage. I check my personal Microsoft Office 365 OneDrive account & am only using 25GB (NB. MS has free accounts with 5GB). So I am weighing up moving all my data to Google Storage & closing my personal Microsoft Office 365 account. Loyalty is a funny thing, you buy their products & they think they own you. When Corporations loose track of their customers they become the next Netscape / AltaVista / Yahoo. I may even go back to Open Office ! Stuff you Microsoft also for failing to support my Lumia 950LX / HP Elite X3 / Microsoft Band / Zune Player etc. ~ call me a Microsoft IDIOT, I bet on the wrong team

That price hike is an absolute joke. I've just managed to cancel my recurring billing for my 365 personal subscription, and sign up to Microsoft 365 Personal Classic for AU$109 instead - no AI included and will switch over on my current expiry date. Hope that helps everyone!

This is absolutely disgusting.

I've just received my notification that my Family subscription is going up by 28% to $179 and I've had messages from customers of mine (freelance computer tech) that their personal subs are going up by 46% to $159.

At that price point, Office Home and Business 2021 will pay for itself inside of 3 years.
"Advanced AI features" - sure, keep telling yourself that. The only reason people are here is because of Outlook (Classic, not new, that's ****. And any naming convention that requires brackets in the name is a terrible choice).

I'd much rather keep copilot OUT of anything I'm doing. I didn't ask for it, it's intrusive and I'm certainly not going to pay for it without looking at ALL my alternatives and retaining customers only due to a dearth of competition is not where you want to be.

I totally agree with you and I also do have Google paid account. Best move would be to just switch to Google and pay to only 1 service.
I do not mind paying to 2 services when it is the price you agreed to, but if Microsoft thinks they can do whatever they want. I would rather do whatever i want too.