this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
61 points (89.6% liked)
Technology
59627 readers
2911 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related content.
- Be excellent to each another!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Approved Bots
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
The price is high: here in Canada it's $30 per user per month on top of $9.99 per month for Microsoft 365 Family. For a family of 4 that's $147 per month with tax included, or $1740 per year if you pay the annual rate for MS 365. I can't imagine too many people will jump on that.
I forgot people are paying for msft 365. 10$ per month is kinda crazy for software I use maybe occasionally (considering most of the functionality is already available with Google Docs, and OpenOffice gets the job done for offline usage).
Honestly the only reason I’d pay for O365 is for the included Cloud storage. A yearly family plan is $99.99, and includes up to 6TB of one drive storage, which isn’t a bad deal for Cloud storage if you need it.
Also worth noting they're one of the very few cloud providers I'm aware of with regional pricing, the annual family plan's bang for your buck is simply unbeatable where I live. Not an apples to apples comparison but to put it into perspective, my 1TB Hetzner storage box runs me about the same as my 365 family plan, except the latter has 6 times the raw storage among all people.
Hell yeah brother me too.
As an added bonus, I no longer have to crack Office for my family. And my sister doesn't panic when her phone dies anymore.