Microsoft Increasing Price of Commercial 'Microsoft 365' Plans Next Year

Maconplasma said:
MS Office is a ripoff plain and simple. Microsoft has a monopoly and they get away with screwing customers.
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It is like those who cry that they are so deep in the Apple ecosystem that they cannot possibly get out. Corporations and individuals who tied their operations and processes 100% to one supplier and product only have themselves to blame. No IT manager wanted to suggest getting rid of Microsoft products because following the sheep was safer and easier. You lie in the bed you made.
 
dmylrea said:
Been to the grocery store lately? Bought gasoline lately? "Price creep" is in literally every industry. Prices go up. Rarely down. It's not some big conspiracy...
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Except people have choices in grocery stores to shop. In the industry where a company like Micro$oft where they hold a monopoly people are forced to use their Office suite in the business world. Thanks Microsoft! Force my hand.....because you can.
 
Software pricing needs to be regulated. Tech companies are literally bringing this upon themselves.

Subscriptions shouldn't exist for software which doesn't provide active servers running on the cloud. An ordinary app (ie: word processing app or media player) isn't providing service, so there's no point of providing the developer with money every month.

Paid updates should also not be a thing, for software which doesn't provide significant new functionality. A perfect example is how ParagonNTFS ripped off users by having them buy the software again for every new annual version of macOS...despite the same exact code.
 
Can't understand people disliking other posters here trashing Microsoft 365, in my view it isn't
as good as some say here.
I have to use this stuff for my job, got a Surface, what a crap device that is.
Teams for instance just sucks big time...really, outlook...meh.
 
justperry said:
Can't understand people disliking other posters here trashing Microsoft 365, in my view it isn't
as good as some say here.
I have to use this stuff for my job, got a Surface, what a crap device that is.
Teams for instance just sucks big time...really, outlook...meh.
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Teams is the clunkiest app on my Mac.
 
dmylrea said:
It's a SERVICE too. Azure AD and OneDrive require SERVERS and STORAGE which runs on ELECTRICITY, all of which cost more today than last year.
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ok, but how many people actually use those services? We aren't even allowed to store any of our business documents on OneDrive.
 
I used to use Libre Office, which I quite liked. But now, my works Microsoft 365 account gives me the option of installing it on four other machines, so I have it on my M1 MBP at no cost (to me!) I’d probably go back to Libre Office if I had to pay for it though.
 
Erwin-Br said:
A lot of people trashing Office here, but let's be honest: iWork is a joke compared to it. Especially Numbers.
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Actually Pages is a very good word processing piece of software and it has a compatibility mode for the overpriced and bloated Word. Keynote is KING. PPT is nowhere close to it. So all you have left is Outlook (which can easily be replaced by most (if not all) email programs and Excel. I've been in the corporate world for over 30 years and Excel is hardly utilized much past standard spreadsheets, despite what some here would say.
 
Be prepared to see more of this. Everyone was so excited to get a bit of the trillions in USD the Fed was printing, up until they realized everything was about to get much more expensive to compensate. I've lost so much to inflation this year it's disgusting.
 
cashboxz02 said:
Software pricing needs to be regulated. Tech companies are literally bringing this upon themselves.

Subscriptions shouldn't exist for software which doesn't provide active servers running on the cloud. An ordinary app (ie: word processing app or media player) isn't providing service, so there's no point of providing the developer with money every month.

Paid updates should also not be a thing, for software which doesn't provide significant new functionality. A perfect example is how ParagonNTFS ripped off users by having them buy the software again for every new annual version of macOS...despite the same exact code.
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What do you do for a living? I'd like to offer a bunch of rules about how you should be compensated.
 
Microsoft get your act together! You have a strong monopoly yet you are hiking subscription prices and as always screwing over the Mac customers with a lesser version of Office against what people get on Windows for the same price. Shame on you M$.
 
macintoshmac said:
There are people in the world that must use Microsoft products to ensure 100% compatibility when exchanging documents with clients. I happen to be one of those people, fortunately-unfortunately. I cannot use Apple products and export in DOCX format and send it over. Clients sometimes want some things in a certain way that must reflect as is when they open those documents in their Microsoft apps. Nothing I can do in that regard.. except to swallow the cost and account for it in my prices I charge them.

We know you love iWork, and I agree it is great, but please understand for once and hopefully for all times that iWork is best for environs that do not include Microsoft apps but only Apple products. I am not going to say it is great for personal use and not for professional use, because if my client is a Mac environment, I would do much better to send the client a Pages/ Numbers/ Keynote document than a DOCX/ XLSX/ PPTX Microsoft document. And that would be a professional exchange, so not saying iWork is not for professional use.

But, you have to understand and admit, bringing the greatness of iWork into the discussion every time office productivity software is being discussed is like bringing a butter knife to a gunfight, simply because of the fact that a majority of the world uses Microsoft apps at/ for work. When that situation changes, the tools we use will change.

I will give you an example here. At iWork's peak in around 2009, it was so good with interoperability for my use that I was working in iWork and converting and sending out to clients and they never had any issues. My full professional needs were being met with iWork. I cannot say that today, because Apple decided to convert iWork into apps for children, so to speak. The power that was on tap has just been missing ever since they overhauled the apps.

So, point is, if 90% of your recipients use a Mac, you can get away with iWork and think why are others not using it.. but an obscene number of businesses in the world work with Microsoft apps and, therefore, anyone working with those businesses must also work using Microsoft apps, whether desired or not.
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Thank you for purchasing my M1 MacBook Pro, I will now do as you say. And also forget I said I have 3 subs of Office I bought at the MS campus unused.
 
XXPP said:
They have real monopoly in business. They can do anything with pricing.
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In reality, they don’t (in terms of Office). It’s just that most people who are running those businesses are too lazy to look or train for the alternatives. More and more businesses actually are adopting Google’s suite, and there are other popular alternatives like zoho.
 
cashboxz02 said:
Software pricing needs to be regulated. Tech companies are literally bringing this upon themselves.

Subscriptions shouldn't exist for software which doesn't provide active servers running on the cloud. An ordinary app (ie: word processing app or media player) isn't providing service, so there's no point of providing the developer with money every month.

Paid updates should also not be a thing, for software which doesn't provide significant new functionality. A perfect example is how ParagonNTFS ripped off users by having them buy the software again for every new annual version of macOS...despite the same exact code.
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With that logic, your employer should only pay your salary one time, or maybe once every time you get certified of a new skill, since your other skills are likely to be the same year after year.

Subscription made software affordable. Back in the days, nobody in my country can afford the Office perpetual license as it costs hundreds of dollars. Most people would just pirate and risking their PCs with viruses and trojans.

Now, with Office 365, people can actually afford office as they can just pay for the month they’re going to use it.

And in reality, most people can do just fine with the free web version of Office or Google Docs. There’s really no reason to complain about cost anymore with so many free solutions available.
 
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