For anyone on 365 auto-renewal M$ are adding up to £30 on the annual fee to cover additional AI features including Copilot. If you don’t want these features just yet the way out is to change to recurring billing. This was discussed on the Martin Lewis ITV show last week.

<https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/02/microsoft-365-price-hike/>

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Cheers, Alan

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Alan B <[email protected]d> wrote:

For anyone on 365 auto-renewal M$ are adding up to £30 on the annual fee to cover additional AI features including Copilot. If you don’t want these features just yet the way out is to change to recurring billing. This was discussed on the Martin Lewis ITV show last week.

<https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/02/microsoft-365-price-hike/>

They seem to have renamed 'Office' to 'Microsoft 365 Copilot' :-( https://www.office.com/

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Theo <[email protected]> wrote:

Alan B <[email protected]d> wrote:

For anyone on 365 auto-renewal M$ are adding up to £30 on the annual fee to >> cover additional AI features including Copilot. If you don’t want these
features just yet the way out is to change to recurring billing. This was
discussed on the Martin Lewis ITV show last week.

<https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/02/microsoft-365-price-hike/>

They seem to have renamed 'Office' to 'Microsoft 365 Copilot' :-( https://www.office.com/

I didn’t twig that initially! Old age creeping in or MS’s way of trying to confuse subscribers into paying for some features (e.g. AI) they may not
want. I’m not against AI but I’d rather wait a few iterations of these AI bots’ functionality before I take them seriously.

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Cheers, Alan

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