How can I buy Office 365 without Copilot

It's really shocking that they don't give you the option of the classic versions, even when you go via the chat, until you send them the link above.

I've just had the following response after they've gone to their manager to get approval to put me onto the classic versions

"I see, by the way, do you consider getting the 10.49/month for the family.

About the AI: You can visit this link to know more about the Copilot:
Copilot Prompt Gallery

You have the option to disable this features."

Why would anyone want to pay more for something they don't want?

My renewal was due today, and I have tried several times over to renew at the same cost as before - €69. I don't need 1TB storage and there is just me - not multiple users. That said, I was happy to renew at the existing price and would have done so.

In frustration, I cancelled the renewal. Then I found a link to Basic so resubscribed - only to discover Word is not included. So unable to upgrade to anything other than the co-pilot option, that subscription has been cancelled, and I am back to square one.

Agree with all the other comments on this topic, we are being forced to use co-pilot and they have the cheek to force us to pay for it.

Looking for alternatives - they are out there. Just bloody inconvenient.

As a writer I am so relieved that users have been given the option to disable Copilot in Word.

Yes, but you are paying more for the Copilot subscription, only to disable it !!

MS needs to make the actual subscription an option. There are all of these work-arounds posted --- renew with copilot, cancel, then start a new account, etc. It shouldn't be so difficult to find the non-Copilot option -- they keep it very well hidden.

I cannot agree with you more. I know there are a miniscule handful of users that use Copilot, so give them that CHOICE. For the rest of use, let us get on with our work without the annoying intrusive Copilot that adds nothing to productivity or anything else, despite Microsoft's claims. As a writer I am so relieved that users have been given the option to disable Copilot in Word. Can you imagine how frustrated famous writers like the Nobel prize winner for literature, Ernest Hemingway, and others, such as Cormac McCarthy, would have been with the intrusive, and in reality, NOT so smart, Copilot. Writers live with the constant fear that with the next Windows update we will find that we can no loner disable the Copilot devil.

Microsoft should not auatoamticcaly include co-pilot in Office 365, I should have the option to renew without co-pilot without cancelling my subscription and at a lower price.