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

As many other people have demonstrated their annoyance at this here, I've just had the same message and had to go through to switch to a "classic" plan which is utter tripe. Microsoft clearly hoping to clean up on a massive monthly price hike from unexpecting people who believe that there's no other option. What a really horrible underhand sales tactic Microsoft. Do better.

It should have been offered as an option to upgrade not given as a price increase message, and you know it. Really poor effort and bad taste left afterwards. If I didn't need it, I would walk away from you given these shady tactics.

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!

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

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?

I had the same issue, but through google play, also did not have the classic plan option. I cancelled the subscription on google. Once the "service" ended, the classic plan option appeared on my account subscription page & managed to subscribe successfully to the classic plan.