<![CDATA[For many people, there's Simply No Need For @microsoft Office anymore.]]>For many people, there's Simply No Need For @microsoft Office anymore. Microsoft raised prices in January 2025 and added Copilot to every plan. Correlation isn't always causation, but come on. A Reddit comment calling it an "active impediment to workflow" got over 2,000 upvotes. That's not a fringe opinion, that's a signal. When your users are that vocal about the AI you forced on them, making things worse, you've got a product problem dressed up as a progress story. Remember ?

The part nobody wants to address at work: your company is probably still paying for 365 because switching feels hard, not because it's the best tool. Google's top-tier plan — 2TB of storage plus Gemini's paid features — costs the same $9.99 a month as Microsoft's lowest 365 tier. That math is hard to ignore if you're actually looking at it.

🔒 The real lock-in isn't the software anymore, it's inertia
📊 If your org hasn't audited this spend recently, now's a good time.

https://www.bgr.com/2130087/why-no-one-needs-microsoft-office-anymore/

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