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.

 

[kookaburra75]

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.

You should see my proposals, where I "assumption" the living daylights out of them so there are no 'misunderstandings' from what we are going to deliver, in the Underpinning Assumptions section, including what goes into a deliverable.
I have always tied the assumptions into my risk registers, as I use a non-ISO31000 approach and define a risk as being something that will prevent me reaching my objectives. As my objectives are based on assumptions, I tie them together.

 

[OZDUCK]

It was $40 for me so pleased as well.

It was US$25 for me - so A$40 same as you I would think.

 

[MARTINE]

The best medico-legal reports always document the baseline assumptions upon which conclusions were reached with evidence…if the assumption is wrong (eg camera proof that I did not fall over on a grape in Coles and break my wrist but CCTV shoes it was when I got out of the car) an updated opinion can be provided.
Differs from the WCMO assumption (‘I assume’) of the customer facing moron who just wants to get rid of you rather than provide factual information

 

[mel-world]

It was US$25 for me - so A$40 same as you I would think.

Same for me (A$40)... Many thanks to the OP for the info and instructions. Every little helps and I was trying to work out how to delete the Co-pilot from the Apps as I am a 'dinosaur' and cannot see me ever using it.

 

[kookaburra75]

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

Ditto - thanks for the tip

 

[Pushka]

The way people are banging on about how hot it is in Adelaide. It isn't. The maximum temp was 34. Briefly. There are no extreme temps forecast for the next week. That's actually pretty mild for Adelaide. But the media can't let up. Extreme heat. How hot is it yada yada. Now I get that some don't like the heat but that isn't the issue. It's not hot. How will they cope in Feb when likely it will be hot. Or the 15 days a few years ago when it was over 35 for 15 days. Son had his 18th birthday in that time when it was 44c. But right now, it isn't hot!

 

[p--and--t]

WCMO is the mega department created to appease a certain polly (who is no longer there) that is too big to be competent.

Partner has been an Aussie citizen with passport (and a taxpayer) for 30+ years and never had an AU issued visa nor travelled on a special visa (arrived in the country with Aussie passport obtained while overseas).

Received a letter from Medicare saying his card is cancelled because his visa class as advised by Home affairs department is no longer eligible for Medicare benefits.

Mob of bloody idiots


Edit: On the phone now "can't help you, need to write in with supporting evidence to appeal the decision made".

Ok. So finally a resolution after many calls including to Home Affairs and various people at Medicare and two visits to Medicare offices.

Home affairs have no record whatsoever of sending any advice to Medicare. There is no record of an unresolved visa in any of their systems (as expected).

Medicare have resolved that despite an acknowledgment the advice should not have been sent there is nothing they can do to stop the cancellation of the Medicare card and a new one will be issued and sent via snail mail.

Oh and they refuse to divulge why the card was cancelled or what went wrong in Medicare processes, nor issue a letter of apology nor a certification that my partner is a citizen and the card should not have been cancelled.

 

[Quickstatus]

nor issue a letter of apology

Government is never accountable

The maximum temp was 34

That IS extreme heat