Why has there been a 50% increasing the price of Microsoft 365 Personal? This is an extraordinary increase and unaffordable for most people .

I bought my subscription through Apple which I have now cancelled due to the price hike. My only option on Apple is to renew the hiked subscription.

On the Microsoft site I see nothing about a classic plan. Is this only available in certain countries.

Should I just get the cheap business plan at £4.40 a month?

So we have to pay 50% more because you want to launce more products that we dont need!, Time to cancel

My cost has doubled here in Canada. When I signed up, it was "on sale" which locks in my renewal at that lower price of $69.99 for a family plan. The new plan is $145...more than double!

This is ridiculous.

I'm also responsible for my company's corporate plan and this increase will force us to go look at Google Workspace again.

I'm not sure why Microsoft is trying SO hard to shoot themselves in the foot and drive all of their customers away, but they're doing a bang-up job of it!

Ah cool, good feedback thank you. It won't let me choose Classic at the moment, will come back to it when it's closer to expiring.

I don't know where you are but I am in Australia and was able to change to 365 Personal Classic instead of accepting the attempt at forced renewal at 50% more. I made the change about 2 days before the expiry of my then-current subscription. You have to go through the cancellation process (which is why I left it until just 2 days to go) but there comes a point when you can choose something else. That is when the old Classic is available at last year's prices. And I only knew there was an option because of other people here. Microsoft were obviously hoping people would not notice the increase or the really annoying constant AI-generated pop-ups and just pay up. We are clearly smarter than that, especially in this high cost of living climate.