Cheapest Office 365 family subscription source

tired_dad

Hiya, renewing on the Microsoft portal was always over £100. On amazon I was buying a year for £70 and it worked fine.

Noticed prices have gone up and have been searching google. There seems to be sites advertising renewal fees for circa £60. Any reliable source?

MyRealNameToo

tired_dad said:

Hiya, renewing on the Microsoft portal was always over £100. On amazon I was buying a year for £70 and it worked fine.

Noticed prices have gone up and have been searching google. There seems to be sites advertising renewal fees for circa £60. Any reliable source?

Bought it from Amazon on 8 July for £49.99... just a matter of timing. 

hellomoneyrc

MS have secretly added AI to everyone's Office365 subscription and upped the price accordingly.

You need to contact them and ask to be changed to the Office365 Classic subscription to bring your price back down to what you expect. Some users will see the Classic option when they look at changing subscriptions and otehrs don't so if you do not see the option - ask!

flaneurs_lobster

hellomoneyrc said:

MS have secretly added AI to everyone's Office365 subscription and upped the price accordingly.

Secretly? Really?

From https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/buy/compare-all-microsoft-365-products

Achieve the extraordinary

With Microsoft 365, get spacious cloud storage, advanced security for your data and devices and powerful productivity and creativity apps with AI, all in one plan.

It's also listed in each plan's features

• Productivity apps with Microsoft Copilot

Copilot is also the very first thing mentioned when you go to the MS 365 home page.

Frozen_up_north

At £50~£100 per year, it isn't good value to run MS 365. There are alternatives, such as Libreoffice which is compatible and free.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

MyRealNameToo

Frozen_up_north said:

At £50~£100 per year, it isn't good value to run MS 365. There are alternatives, such as Libreoffice which is compatible and free.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

They are broadly compatible and perfectly fine if you are using it on your personal computer to do personal admin tasks etc. 

They arent completely compatible though and for example if you are dealing with complex VBA based spreadsheets which are shared with MS Office users etc you probably are better off getting the same versions. 

Undervalued

MyRealNameToo said:

Frozen_up_north said:

At £50~£100 per year, it isn't good value to run MS 365. There are alternatives, such as Libreoffice which is compatible and free.

https://www.libreoffice.org/

They are broadly compatible and perfectly fine if you are using it on your personal computer to do personal admin tasks etc. 

They arent completely compatible though and for example if you are dealing with complex VBA based spreadsheets which are shared with MS Office users etc you probably are better off getting the same versions. 

Exactly ^^^^^

Plus I would add that Libra (and other clone) users won't know they have a potential problem until they run into it, invariably at the least convenient time! 

I know this is a "Money Saving" site but there are such things as false economies and priorities. The real thing costs considerably less than a cup of coffee out each week!

Vitor

£100ish for 365 Family Sub allows 5 other licences, so around £17/year if you maximise usage which is worth it IMHO. NB only main account holder in Family has access to CoPilot unless you add individual top-ups, although not sure that's a great loss (I license ChatGPT).

chunter

What about the wonderfully ropey Wowcher and Groupon and their 'group' license deals?

I've used them for all sorts of software nonsense. Work fine.

J_B

As I keep 'banging on' 🤔 https://softwaresupply.net/ have some excellent deals for around a tenner

flaneurs_lobster

J_B said:

As I keep 'banging on' 🤔 https://softwaresupply.net/ have some excellent deals for around a tenner

...and Malwarebytes "keeps banging on" that that's a hooky site