They made a product that many companies use. There are other options.
Microsoft is in the business to make money and that's what they are doing.
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Microsoft Increasing Price of Commercial 'Microsoft 365' Plans Next Year
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Microsoft is in the business to make money and that's what they are doing.
The last time I used Keynote it didn’t seem all that great dealing with equations. Not that PowerPoint is all that great either.
Interesting how there are some here in full force defending M$. Who defends a price hike? 🙄. There is no reason for a price hike. With 365 they don't have to package software on optical medium or package anything for that matter. No distribution is required since it's on a server and they don't have to pay Best Buy to sell it from their shelves. It's just a ripoff and middle finger to customers. The subscription model makes sure that people are even more forced than before to use Office. SMH.
Subscriptions might be a relatively new trend in consumer products and services, but in terms of recurring license fees that's been the norm in business for decades.
Any business that doesn't factor inflation-linked annual increases into their budgets should be finding itself a new finance director - in business terms those years when MS didn't increase its prices were effectively an operating cost reduction.
Any business that doesn't factor inflation-linked annual increases into their budgets should be finding itself a new finance director - in business terms those years when MS didn't increase its prices were effectively an operating cost reduction.
Last I used ppt, it was pretty bad. Excel is probably the best OS Microsoft has ever made though.
I have a better plan: wait for Microsoft 366
Effective next year, pricing for all commercial plans of Microsoft 365 will be increased
So it's the first major price increase in a decade and most of you are all up in arms? How is this different than any other industry? My lawn service increased price this year after two years, maybe I should start the pitchforks?
Ridiculous and irrelevant analogy. You can simply choose a different lawn service. 🙄. Unlike in the business world where one's livelihood is affected people are forced to use M$365 due to industry standards. Is the company performing your lawn service the industry standard? Are you forced to use it?
As a presumably lifetime office 365 user, I am affected by this price increase. No big deal cause it’s just for one user, but still.
However, I definitely can say I use office software, OneDrive for Business, Team, mailbox, primitive MDM and so on enough that such ongoing cost is justified. In contrast, I never touched iWorks despite having iPhone iPad and now MacBook Pro. I’d say for me Microsoft office definitely bringing more value over time.
Not to say other office software is bad, they are not. But google suite is useless when I’m offline. Libreoffice interface isn’t too clean imo, though better csv support is a plus.
As such, I don’t really understand much of the hate here, though I guess it’s because this forum is apple centric and anything from any company other than Apple is automatically being positioned as inferior no matter what.
However, I definitely can say I use office software, OneDrive for Business, Team, mailbox, primitive MDM and so on enough that such ongoing cost is justified. In contrast, I never touched iWorks despite having iPhone iPad and now MacBook Pro. I’d say for me Microsoft office definitely bringing more value over time.
Not to say other office software is bad, they are not. But google suite is useless when I’m offline. Libreoffice interface isn’t too clean imo, though better csv support is a plus.
As such, I don’t really understand much of the hate here, though I guess it’s because this forum is apple centric and anything from any company other than Apple is automatically being positioned as inferior no matter what.
This is where I have to wholeheartedly disagree with you. Apple gets a lot of criticism here even when they are doing right by the customer. And often competing company's products get praise over Apple's products just because it's Apple and for no other reason. But if you expect praise here for M$ for hiking prices especially when M$ has been throwing a bunch of hate towards Apple in their TV ads telling people NOT to buy Macs or iPads then you're expecting too much and this is perhaps the wrong place for you to get M$ news.
All these anti-Microsoft comments are just hilarious! It's a couple bucks increase, people!!! Netflix goes up 2 bucks and people still pay it, but you're all b1tching about 2 bucks increase in a tool (software/service) that is an incredible value and hasn't increased in price in years?
Funny how so many anti-MS people here claim MS has a "monopoly" (they don't), and businesses are "trapped" (they aren't). In as much as you pro-Apple people justify your mega-$$$ overpriced PRO Apple crap because it's used for business and pays for itself (sound familiar?), same with the tools businesses use. Turns out MS is a standard, as is VM-ware, Adobe, etc., and businesses use them as tools to make money.
Stop whining already!
Funny how so many anti-MS people here claim MS has a "monopoly" (they don't), and businesses are "trapped" (they aren't). In as much as you pro-Apple people justify your mega-$$$ overpriced PRO Apple crap because it's used for business and pays for itself (sound familiar?), same with the tools businesses use. Turns out MS is a standard, as is VM-ware, Adobe, etc., and businesses use them as tools to make money.
Stop whining already!
Right? People just gotta complain because it's, well, Microsoft. What do you expect in an Apple forum (a forum full of people that overpay for over-priced hardware as it is...)??
Agreed. I guess people here think that Apple is only company allowed to make money. Hypocrisy at it's finest...
Google Workspace or G-Suite just got two price increases in a year. The price almost doubled.
If you are talking about the free tiers, yes Google is more popular. If we are talking about the paid tiers then Microsoft is killing Google in that space. By a big margin. The whole US government and military are on O365.
Yes, I do have 365. All the updates are quite minor tho. That’s my point.
Hmm OK comrade. In a free economy customers can choose not to pay and if enough do the software maker will react accordingly if they like to get paid.
In academia, with publishers and researchers, LaTeX is actually prefered over anything MS Office.
With Computer Science related people and jobs, .md or Markdown format is actually prefered over anything else, including MS Office.
For all other less-educated populations, PDF is actually prefered over anything MS Office. If editing is needed, attach a .txt, or plain text document.
The only reason to use MS Office is for Excel, which has its place in data management. You need something powerful, but not too complex like a PostgreSQL database for some throwaway, limited-scope, use.
If you own the overwhelming majority market share, doesn't matter if you are making losses every day, or never turned a profit, or are purely philanthropic, you are a monopoly.
That only works once every four years.
With equations, use LaTeX. If that's too much for you, start with a LaTeX math plug in for the MS Office.