Tim 🎮Jan 10, 2025

Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.

"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".

You're welcome. Please boost for others.

Show threadTim 🎮Jan 10, 2025

This is not a cry for help, I'm aware LibreOffice and other alternatives exist and suggesting them to me does not help anyone fix this

Edit: this was a foolishly optimistic thing to bother saying

Show threadAngela Scholder
@timixretroplays Indeed, but not using M$ 365 definitely solves the problem!
Jan 10, 2025 at 2:02pmWeb
Show threadRaptor Mar 23, 2025
@AngelaScholder @timixretroplays and continuing to support paying microsoft for this directly funds this behavior, it's only a matter of time before they raise the price and remove the option anyways.