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

I followed instructions and reverted to "classic", not that I should have had too!! Microsoft should have given the option to change to the AI more expensive version not just assume people would want it!! Paying same price as last year again of $109

Same here - no option to resubscribe without Copilot. I don't need it for what I do with Office and I don't want to contribute to the enormous carbon footprint that AI creates. It stinks, MS.

Update: I have had to do the same . BUT today I received notification that "classic" will be charged at the higher rate on my renewal date in a week's time. Seems like Microsoft are determined to force everyone onto some product they neither want nor need. It remains to be seen exactly how much I get charged. As always it is impossible to talk to a real person to sort the mess out.

Here's a thought - instead of massively increasing the price and forcing what it turns out is a new product onto existing subscribers, leave us as we are and send us an email advising that the new Microsoft Copilot 365 Family is now an option if we want to spend more money?

Good news is I have 9 months to get off my butt and setup the cloud storage features on my NAS and shift my document editing to my Workspace account.

If you look around, you can still buy standalone Office. Not sure which country you're in, but you can often (legitimately!) buy online really cheaply too ;)

Just google Office 2024