Really? Where has Apple hiked prices on their subscription services? That's what this news article is about. Interesting how you're defending Microsoft for raising prices. 🙄
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Microsoft Increasing Price of Commercial 'Microsoft 365' Plans Next Year
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Perhaps I am a crazy person outlier, but I actually quite like the modern Office apps on the Mac.
They aren’t very ‘Mac native’ of course (but what is nowadays…). I spend all day chugging away in Outlook, Word and Excel. Inspiring and elegant? Hardly. But functional and reliable. I wrote my PhD thesis and numerous other long publications in various versions of Word on the Mac and found it to be a trusty servant.
I do however much prefer Keynote to PowerPoint.
And the less said about the abomination that is Teams the better.
They aren’t very ‘Mac native’ of course (but what is nowadays…). I spend all day chugging away in Outlook, Word and Excel. Inspiring and elegant? Hardly. But functional and reliable. I wrote my PhD thesis and numerous other long publications in various versions of Word on the Mac and found it to be a trusty servant.
I do however much prefer Keynote to PowerPoint.
And the less said about the abomination that is Teams the better.
The price increase is for the business tiers. The consumer tiers are not stated to get any price increases. So put down the pitchforks.
I just don’t understand the concept of a subscription for commodity software. Biggest scam ever.
Well… there’s other ways. The Mac version hasn’t been improved in so long… the last major update was from 3-4 years ago or smth. Not sure what we’re paying for lmao
Maybe not I subscriptions but when will Apple upgrade the 50gb account for iCloud? The Apple One subs were made so you go for the highest one regardless of your need, because they tie up the storage... its more or less the same as MS...
Someone has to pay for Satia Nadella's retreat vacation...
Your post is way off base to this article. You're talking about personal needs in regards cloud space. This article is about price hikes in subscription services. Stay on topic please.
Are people mad about a company charging other companies more? Not like the actual user notices the price. Hell, most companies won't notice if they are using it today (myself included).
If this was just about corporations only then this article wouldn't be posted. The majority of people using Office 365/MS 365 ARE business users, or students. The average home computer user that writes notes or types letters occasionally is not paying for a subscription service for Office. The price hike includes Business Basic. Do you think major corporations are using that version? No, small business and home business users are. This price hike affects the majority of people that use Office.
The article clearly calls out there are 6 different plans at different pricing points.
People love to complain for no reason
Well subscription usually increase in price now and then so not suprised it happens .
And depending how you work office 2019/365 is the way to go.
For business that is, but for a consumer you could use notepad++ ,if you want.
I use 365 personal and its killer deal for me personally its like 7.4dollars in sweden a month prob a bit cheaper if you go with yearly sub.
They have also introduced so you can use custom domain with office365 personal at last.
And depending how you work office 2019/365 is the way to go.
For business that is, but for a consumer you could use notepad++ ,if you want.
I use 365 personal and its killer deal for me personally its like 7.4dollars in sweden a month prob a bit cheaper if you go with yearly sub.
They have also introduced so you can use custom domain with office365 personal at last.
I'm more of a "Bank Street Writer Plus" guy myself. At least in high school. In the 80's. My mother worked as an executive assistant at an environmental engineering firm in the 90's and preferred WordPerfect. I remember the shortcut key guide people used to stick to their keyboards.
I should have went into engineering. But didn't have the math skills back then.
We used 365 at my workplace. It's OK. I see no benefit over Office 2003. Outlook is slower. That's about it. This is probably to the crappy network and services my employer provides. This place doesn't even have WiFi and the cell signal sucks.
Or you can just use Google or LibreOffice and save yourself the money.
I'm surprised more people just don't use free alternatives. Google, LibreOffice, etc.
Ironically said by the person with a laundry list of Apple complaints in their post history. That member you replied to has every reason to complain about MS's price hikes because what MS is doing is outrageous seeing as they have a monopoly on office-style software. Your defense for MS is not surprising based on your avatar. 🙄
I have to commend Microsoft for doing such an amazing job at this transition to service-based Office.
I work 40 hours a week at a day job with the standard enterprise plan (4500 employees w/ 1TB of OneDrive + entire suite) and then I go home to my real estate job with the same plan and another storage tier, then I sit on a volunteer board with the same plan and storage and finally, I pay $5 a month to host my persona email with "basics" primarily because MS' support & spam scanning are so good. I got tired of managing it all myself but didn't want to trust Google.
So where I used to pay $500 every 2 years for Office for Mac, I directly and indirectly pay them about $60 a month or $720 a year just so I can share documents and store them with the correct account (due to corporate data standards)
It's kind of hilarious actually to think how Microsoft quadrupled how much money they make off of me in 5 years since I started transitioning to office 365.
I work 40 hours a week at a day job with the standard enterprise plan (4500 employees w/ 1TB of OneDrive + entire suite) and then I go home to my real estate job with the same plan and another storage tier, then I sit on a volunteer board with the same plan and storage and finally, I pay $5 a month to host my persona email with "basics" primarily because MS' support & spam scanning are so good. I got tired of managing it all myself but didn't want to trust Google.
So where I used to pay $500 every 2 years for Office for Mac, I directly and indirectly pay them about $60 a month or $720 a year just so I can share documents and store them with the correct account (due to corporate data standards)
It's kind of hilarious actually to think how Microsoft quadrupled how much money they make off of me in 5 years since I started transitioning to office 365.
I was this way in regards to Lotus SmartSuite. I loved that office suite (WordPro [formerly Ami Pro), Lotus 123 and Freelance Graphics). Much more intuitive (to me) than MS Office.
I have gotten used to MS Office, but I still to this day miss the non-modal attribute window in SmartSuite - select text and make changes in the popup. Select different text (without having to close the popup window) and make different changes in the popup. So much more efficient not having to constantly open-close-open-close-etcetera the modal popup attribute windows in MS Office.
They have real monopoly in business. They can do anything with pricing.
Are you joking? Just look at the jacked up iPhone prices both in the US and overseas! 🤦♂️ Still complaining or is it just Microsoft that you want to complain about.
Your post has nothing to do with the article. You're completely off topic. SMH. Oh the irony of calling someone a complainer. 🙄
If you don't use those applications, you aren't subscribing to a plan that includes them. There are other plans that don't include features like Teams if you don't need it. They haven't increased the price of the simple e-mail only plan either.
Office 365 Personal is $5.83 a month and includes the Office, 1TB of Onedrive and a larger personal mailbox.