(Mini News) Office 365 Price Change

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Source : email

 

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Effective October 11th 2017, the annual price of Office 365 Personal purchased directly from Microsoft in Canada will change from CAD $69.00 to CAD $79.00

 

So Microsoft is bumping the OneDrive/Office 365 package price from $70 to $80 per year, at least in Canada.  While I would of course prefer that they didn't do this, it is still the cheapest good cloud storage I'm aware of, and that's not even counting the fact you also get Office with it, so this is probably fine.

 

I'm curious, does anyone know of changes to the pricing in other countries?

[ElZamo92]

Das some bullshit. I don´t know about Mexico, since I get 365 for free in my uni. 

 

Edit: after a bit of investigation, the price of 365 increased from 1000 pesos (56 usd) to 1300 pesos (71 usd) in Mexico. 

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Just now, Ryan_Vickers said:

 

 

Source : email

 

how credible is this source hmm /s

 

2 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

 

I'm curious, does anyone know of changes to the pricing in other countries?

my school has free copy of office so can't check, and doing google doesn't help either, no info of it. 

[DrMacintosh]

Pages, Keynote, & Numbers

 

Price: Free

 

[DrMacintosh]

16 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

it is still the cheapest good cloud storage I'm aware of

How much do you get for $1 a month? 

 

iCloud Drive:

[dizmo]

I guess it's good for those that would use OneDrive quite a bit. Personally I'll always buy Office.

[MoonSpot]

10 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

...it is still the cheapest good cloud storage I'm aware of...

And if you're not big on cloud and just want office apps, its a pretty crap never ending deal.

 

What the hell kind of notice is "effective immediately" anyways?  Is MS Canada shooting from the hip on this?

[ElZamo92]

5 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

How much do you get for $1 a month? 

 

iCloud Drive:

Well, look at this:

 

[Zodiark1593]

7 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Pages, Keynote, & Numbers

 

Price: Free

 

And for those without an Apple device, hmm?

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5 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

How much do you get for $1 a month? 

 

iCloud Drive:

It's 1 TB for $70 (well $80 now) per year for one person or $90 (iirc... That might be $100 now) for 5 users to each have 1 TB per person.  Looks like the apple plan is 2 TB for $120/year?

2 minutes ago, MoonSpot said:

And if you're not big on cloud and just want office apps, its a pretty crap never ending deal.

 

What the hell kind of notice is "effective immediately" anyways?  Is MS Canada shooting from the hip on this?

I think there was an email earlier iirc but I didn't post about that.  Also you only pay the new price on your next bill, it's not like they start charging you more right away

[DrMacintosh]

1 minute ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Looks like the apple plan is 2 TB for $120/year?

Yep. I only need 50GB tho so I just get the $1 plan. 

[LienusLateTips]

4 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

It's 1 TB for $70 (well $80 now) per year for one person or $90 (iirc... That might be $100 now) for 5 users to each have 1 TB per person.  Looks like the apple plan is 2 TB for $120/year?

I think there was an email earlier iirc but I didn't post about that.  Also you only pay the new price on your next bill, it's not like they start charging you more right away

I would like to interest you in something called "Amazon Drive" which is still $60 (or 70) for unlimited storage in Canada per person

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1 minute ago, JDE said:

I would like to interest you in something called "Amazon Drive" which is still $60 (or 70) for unlimited storage in Canada per person

I have heard of that but I also heard how the app works, hence my qualifier "good" cloud storage

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6 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Yep. I only need 50GB tho so I just get the $1 plan. 

most places charge insane prices for the low storage options so that's good to see from apple.  That said if I stopped paying I'd still get 30 GB free on OneDrive 15 from the old free plan (was cut down to 5 when they had the whole "unlimited" fiasco) and 15 from the camera roll bonus.

[DrMacintosh]

3 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

most places charge insane prices for the low storage options so that's good to see from apple.

I have only filled half of that 50GB  If I ever want more that $2 extra dollars for an extra 150GB isn't that bad either.  

[Mira Yurizaki]

40 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

 

Source : email

 

 

So Microsoft is bumping the OneDrive/Office 365 package price from $70 to $80 per year, at least in Canada.  While I would of course prefer that they didn't do this, it is still the cheapest good cloud storage I'm aware of, and that's not even counting the fact you also get Office with it, so this is probably fine.

 

I'm curious, does anyone know of changes to the pricing in other countries?

US Pricing is $70/yr for Personal

 

About time you Canadians caught up.

[Guest]

I just wish they'd stop calling it Office 365

[captain_to_fire]

45 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

Source : email

But...but... what's the username and password and the 2fa code to login? 

6 minutes ago, Windspeed36 said:

I just wish they'd stop calling it Office 365

I just wish they'd just bundle Office to Windows but I know it's just mere wishful thinking

49 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

'm curious, does anyone know of changes to the pricing in other countries?

Only in Canada I'm assuming. Maybe because 1 CAD = 0.80 USD.

[mrchow19910319]

Google photo + 15GB of google drive. 

anyone? 

 

[SlipperyPete]

i have the free 5gbs of one drive storage and that is full of photos from my old phone. my google drive gets used often to transfer files between my devices

[PlayStation 2]

Yet another reason to not get Office 365.

[Guest]

I get the office 365 bundle for free, since I go to a school which provides free programs, I basically go to the schools portal and download office for free, it includes powerpoint, excel, word, publisher and one note. With my laptop, I get free 25GB of dropbox storage.

[Ganz]

9 hours ago, Windspeed36 said:

I just wish they'd stop calling it Office 365

I agree.  Apparently naming schemes are hard.

 

Price increase if fine if they continue to update as often as old office versions so you aren't just paying yearly for the same thing.

[Teddy07]

9 hours ago, dizmo said:

 I'll always buy Office.

I really like office but I hate subscription models. Older versions are totally fine with me. I am glad that I got office for free right now.

[Drak3]

10 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

And for those without an Apple device, hmm?

The vastly superior MS Office. Or the moderately superior Libre Office.

Or the adequately superior Open Office.

10 hours ago, Windspeed36 said:

I just wish they'd stop calling it Office 365

You pay for a year licence every year. There are 365 days in a year. ~365.25 if you want to be technical.

 

51 minutes ago, Ganz said:

Apparently naming schemes are hard.

Not really. Better than The New 3DS, The New MacBook, or the New Razer Blade Stealth.