Cheapest Office 365 family subscription source

Doshwaster

Shimrod 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/

At £50 a year, I find Office with its 1TB per user (and 6 users) cloud storage really good value for money. If you  don't want or need onedrive for an offsite back up then it might be different.

I have just renewed a M365 Personal sub for £49.95. A bit more than I paid last year but still decent value and much cheaper than Amazon were quoting

https://your.software/en-gb/office-at-home/microsoft-office-365/microsoft-365-personal-1-user-1-year

While I recognise that AI is the future and software companies need to recover their investments, Copilot really should be an optional feature. 

tired_dad

I used your.software.
£79 for 1y family license

MyRealNameToo

tired_dad said:

I used your.software.
£79 for 1y family license

I know Amazon's prices fluctuate massively but a few weeks before you posted the Q bought the same from Amazon for £49

Do wonder why you chose that website? Do you know trust it? If it's a random website you've never heard of before? Personally, if not buying from a known/trusted website you may as well buy from one of these firms clearly reselling OEM or corporate licences for £5 rather than pay almost full retail price and still not know if its a 100% kosher licence or something from the grey market. 

The fact they have a PO Box for an address isnt the sort of thing that would make me think it's an all above board kind of place. 

Smenon

Argos is currently selling for under £75 with a £5 off if you are registering with a new email id. 

NotArobot24

Microsoft offer a free version

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/free-office-online-for-the-web

Free versions are available from the following


https://openoffice.apache.org/

https://www.libreoffice.org/

https://www.freeoffice.com/en/

This is not an exhaustive list check out reviews, bear in mind sites like these have affiliate links that pay them to refer you, albeit that you probably pay the same for paid software, but free is free.

https://www.techradar.com/best/free-office-software


Why pay Micro$oft a penny?

Bellerophon_2

Got a M365 Annual Subscription with a 30% work discount initially but as I want to get up to speed with AI functionality. Upgraded to M365 Premium which is now on a limited time offer for the first year with £100 off an annual subscription.

If like me you want to use the =copilot function in excel then you need to sign up for the beta channel versions. My thinking - I'm hoping come the end of the year, beta functionality (=copilot function) is released to all so can tier down my subscription to a lower subscription to use it.

PHK

J_B said:

Undervalued said:

So is buying something that "fell of the back of a lorry" from a bloke in the pub. Also illegal!

I don't know the answer, but if it was illegal, why hasn't their website been closed down and why does the program continue to be updated by MS? 

Our company had its licenses cloned and sold through places like that website. Which increased our costs (as you pay per installation)

We had to go to a great deal of trouble with Microsoft but in the end those  people who bought found they had an unlicensed copy. 

So when you recommend dodgy sites like that, you contribute to a real problem. 

J_B

PHK said:

J_B said:

Undervalued said:

So is buying something that "fell of the back of a lorry" from a bloke in the pub. Also illegal!

I don't know the answer, but if it was illegal, why hasn't their website been closed down and why does the program continue to be updated by MS? 

Our company had its licenses cloned and sold through places like that website. Which increased our costs (as you pay per installation)
We had to go to a great deal of trouble with Microsoft but in the end those  people who bought found they had an unlicensed copy. 
So when you recommend dodgy sites like that, you contribute to a real problem. 

I don't really want to recommend "dodgy sites" but it still begs the question ... why hasn't it been closed down if it's illegal?

MyRealNameToo

J_B said:

PHK said:

J_B said:

Undervalued said:

So is buying something that "fell of the back of a lorry" from a bloke in the pub. Also illegal!

I don't know the answer, but if it was illegal, why hasn't their website been closed down and why does the program continue to be updated by MS? 

Our company had its licenses cloned and sold through places like that website. Which increased our costs (as you pay per installation)
We had to go to a great deal of trouble with Microsoft but in the end those  people who bought found they had an unlicensed copy. 
So when you recommend dodgy sites like that, you contribute to a real problem. 

I don't really want to recommend "dodgy sites" but it still begs the question ... why hasn't it been closed down if it's illegal?

Why do you think they use a forwarding address rather than a real address?
Why do you think they dont identify the legal entity, which itself is illegal as is their lack of privacy policy etc?
Why do you think they have nonsense like "This Agreement shall be governed by the
laws of UNITED KINGDOM OR STATE." in their T&Cs?

They use Cloudflare to obscure where their website is truly hosted but typically it will be in a place thats more interested in being paid for hosting than it is in dealing with cease and desist letters from other

There are a number of ways these types of sites obtain their licences, there have been many court cases going for many years in different jurisdictions against vendors like https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/08/microsoft_valuelicensing_latest/ - in this case the firm was buying the perpetual licences from firms moving onto the subscription model and then reselling them off. MS does not win all of its cases. Clearly its harder to sue a website thats being operated by an unknown party with no real address

aroominyork

I need to renew 365 Family. This Argos offer looks good. Can anyone advise if I can turn off McAfee and just use the Office? https://www.argos.co.uk/product/4330082?clickSR=slp:term:office 365 family:1:4:1. I realise I would have to turn off auto-renewal on McAfee.

Also, does this Etro option look safe?