What cheeses me off

[love_the_life]

I was actually meaning what you have to do to remove the AI component: cancel your subscription, then choose another subscription option.

Who would think to actually choose 'cancel subscription' to remove the AI module?

From the MS Community:

If you want to subscribe to Microsoft 365 without copilot, i.e. without Ai functionality. you need to set up a subscription according to the following.


1. If you haven't subscribed to the higher priced Microsoft 365 with copilot yet

• Visit account.microsoft.com.
• Select the Microsoft 365 subscription you have and select “Manage”.
• Select “Cancel Subscription ”
• View “Switch to a subscription that suits you better” and select “Microsoft 365 Personal /Family Classic”.
• After following the instructions to complete your subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew to Classic when its existing subscription expires.

thanks for the info - done and dusted now - very easy

 

[VPS]

thanks for the info - done and dusted now - very easy

It's easy when you know how but it was hard to find that option

 

[Lynda2475]

Maybe the words "my understanding" is better than the word 'assumption '. It sounds more like a clarification of discussions rather than a blanket assumption.

Both PMBOK and Prince2 guidelines recommend Assumption Registers or Assumptions section in Program Management Plans, so in a work context calling them what they are is IME fine.

 

[jeza]

The difference between my Personal 365 subscription for AI & Classic is $2.30.

 

[OZDUCK]

I was actually meaning what you have to do to remove the AI component: cancel your subscription, then choose another subscription option.

Who would think to actually choose 'cancel subscription' to remove the AI module?

From the MS Community:

If you want to subscribe to Microsoft 365 without copilot, i.e. without Ai functionality. you need to set up a subscription according to the following.


1. If you haven't subscribed to the higher priced Microsoft 365 with copilot yet

• Visit account.microsoft.com.
• Select the Microsoft 365 subscription you have and select “Manage”.
• Select “Cancel Subscription ”
• View “Switch to a subscription that suits you better” and select “Microsoft 365 Personal /Family Classic”.
• After following the instructions to complete your subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew to Classic when its existing subscription expires.

Thanks for the info. Worked fine for me.

 

[OZDUCK]

Microsoft subscription due - gone up quite a lot - a bit of digging and you can take $20 off if you don't want AI included

UK Times 1 pound a month going up to 9.99 so cancel and get new email and go back to 1 pound a month for twelve months

NY times going from $20 a year to $180 a year so go online to cancel - oh would you stay if it was $25 a year

SIGGGHHH

Thanks - $25 a year for me now as well.

 

[Flashback]

My Microsoft 365 family just renewed with co-pilot for same price as past 2 years; however I purchased my original subscription with a discount code from a previous employer which is obviously still valid.

Im cancelling my NYT subscription when it expires at the end of the month, AU$20 was worth it for the games and occasional recipe (never found the news much chop); but the 2nd year price of AU$89 (increasing to $180 for 3rd year) is not. I was thinking about opting for the $39 for the puzzles only option; but will now wait and see if they offer me $20 again after cancelling.

You may want to check the T&C. In every Microsoft licence agreement I've ever seen, the ability to use a discount or program associated with an employer you're no longer employed by, ceases to exist the moment you leave them. The old Home Use Program (HUP) was a good example of this. Just because it works, doesn't mean it is legal.

 

[love_the_life]

Thanks - $25 a year for me now as well.

It was $40 for me so pleased as well.

 

[Cynicor]

Just because it works, doesn't mean it is legal.

Though similarly, breaking T and Cs doesn’t mean something is illegal, just against what the company would like.

 

[Lynda2475]

You may want to check the T&C. In every Microsoft licence agreement I've ever seen, the ability to use a discount or program associated with an employer you're no longer employed by, ceases to exist the moment you leave them. The old Home Use Program (HUP) was a good example of this. Just because it works, doesn't mean it is legal.

Nothing illegal happening whatsoever.

The old home use program (where a home copy was free and for a single person/computer) had different terms. Home use was tied to (part of annual cost of) the employers ongoing license agreement which is why you needed a valid license key and you couldn't change the embedded company name. Those copies were supposed to be deleted when you moved on.

I've not seen a 365 version of this type of offering, but given employer supplied laptops are ubiquitous these days and employer policies allow some personal use of said laptops there probably isn't a great need.

The current 365 personal pricing plan I have, is not subsidised by a specific employer. Microsoft have essentially established a preferred/premium sales channel which seeks its direct customers by targetting employees of its corporate clients, at better than their RRP/public price. The original sign-up link (i should not have typed code) provided is the same whether you work at one of the big banks or a not for profit or a government department.

It's a cheap sales channel, as corporate customers do the marketing by posting link on their employee discount page and individuals opt in. They get to keep the personal customers even if the employer they sourced the sales lead from ceases to exist or be a corporate customer.

The email address used to create account is personal as is the credit card that pays for the account. Microsoft know where the referral came from but the purchase is not tied to employment, no mention of employer in the account set up process or terms.

Microsoft have since chosen to continue to offer me the preferred customer pricing. There is nothing in the renewal terms mentioning continued employment or a specific company which makes sense as no employer is subsidising any aspect of the account.

I also get emails from Microsoft reminding me it comes with provision for 5 users and as I'm only using 2, I could add 3 other family or friends (it doesn't even have the restriction of same household).

If Microsoft were selling personal subscriptions tied to continued employment they would need to refund the unused portion of any annual subscription to individuals if employment ceased and they lost access to 365. Something that would likely cost them more to police than the revenue it generates and make customers less likely to sign-up again with next employer.