I had the weekly email from Martin Lewis. This week, it included a warning for MS365 users that MS will increase the price significantly to cover the cost of including AI (which, in this case, stands for “Annoying and Irritating”).
There is a limited time to “revert” (reverting a change you did not make) your account to “Classic”, at the original price. I’ve done that: my renewal, when it comes, will be at the original price.
Yes this is well worth doing.
Although with most software subscriptions (I’m looking at you, Adobe) if you go online to cancel your subscription then via some mysterious expression of the Dark Arts a useful discount usually appears…
For example I currently pay £30.34 a month for the full Adobe Creative Cloud suite, instead of the regular price of £56.98, thanks to Lord Voldemort…
Same as with insurance companies, who will be first up against the wall when the revolution comes. 
Has Sir considered MS Office 2024 as a “buy once and done solution?
If you’re prepared to use a key reseller, you could save yourself a fat bag of cash.
That would be the sort of thing I would normally do - thanks! - but I find useful the online storage that 365 offers.
I must remember to do this too, assuming it applies to professional accounts, or maybe that’s just MS’ domestic user policy ?
Thank you for flagging this. I found an email from Microsoft about the increase in my spam (in a MS email account, I wonder if they do this on purpose!) I have managed to switch back to Classic, although it was not immediately obvious how to do it.
If you haven’t received an email, just log in to your MS account and cancel your subscription, one of the options will be top revert to the standard subscription. Frankly, it stinks how MS have done this, making it an opt out process rather than opt in.
I tend to pay approx 60€ per year from a reseller where I just buy the licence key.
Same happens every year with my Bitdefender anti-virus. You cancel and immediately get 20% off. If you refuse a further two times it goes to 50% off at which time I resubscribe.
When I logged on to my account to revert to Classic, there was a message saying that I qualified for 2 months free subscription. When I switched, the message magically disappeared.
I did consider taking advantage of the 2 free months first and then switching but a) I do not want AI, it is a major annoyance to me to the extent that I would pay more to not have it, and b) I was not sure if the option to switch back to Classic will continue to be available and did not want to risk being stuck with Copilot trying to take over my documents.
My experience with Copilot is that it might be useful for someone who struggled with literacy, but for normal people it’s an intrusive nuisance.
Thank you. £25 saved - every little helps 
Could that be because you’ve got a European account?
I’m not sure. I don’t think it’s country specific, like an Applid.
Every day I’m still using a 2010 version of MSWord that I bought in a UK PC World store MS Office sale for £30 about fifteen years ago. No longer need PowerPoint so it’s sufficient.
For me the important thing about 365 is that all the family (up to six) have access to all the apps and 1TB of cloud storage each and can easily share MS office files. There’s only three of us, but at €99 a year I think it’s good value (and I never thought I would say that about MS 
). I normally prefer to buy S/W but 365 is one subscription that I’m happy with, as is Apple One, which is four times as much but gives us iCloud storage, music, Apple TV, games and fitness (I don’t actually us the last two but my wife and daughter use Fitness).
rakuten fr can be uaeful for all sorts of things ahem
For the past 3 years I have bought it from here:
I paid 63€ last year - currently showing as 99€. Hopefully an offer comes through.
I’m sticking with AppleMac…
