Fewer than 4.5% of Microsoft 365 customers pay for Copilot after three years, only 1% use it weekly, and Microsoft raised prices regardless.
Fewer than 4.5% of Microsoft 365 customers pay for Copilot after three years, only 1% use it weekly, and Microsoft raised prices regardless.
I remember 15 years ago when I needed to reformat my Windows PC and called Microsoft to ask how to import my Office account onto my clean install. They informed me that I already used my ‘backup’ copy when I reformatted last, and I would need to buy a new copy of Office in order to get it running on the same machine again.
OR, they had this ‘Special Deal’ for Office 365 where I could spend 1/2 as much money that day and re-download it as many times as I need! I confirmed with them that I lost my access for software I’ve had for years and that even with their ‘best deal’, I can only rent it back from them and I’d be right back in the same boat in two years. I asked how that was any better and the guy ‘helping me’ didn’t know what to say.
Unsurprisingly, I’m posting from a Linux machine and use LibreOffice now.
i could count on one hand the number of users i’ve run across that absolutely had to have the real microsoft office. an alternative like libreoffice works just as well for nearly everyone.
I really wish libre office didnt feel and look like it was written by a physicist in 1997. I’d love to switch to it.
I use it for my personal stuff. It’s pretty rough. It gets the job done, but it’s not fun to try and figure out how to do things with it. Charting in their spreadsheet program is frustrating.