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How to subscribe to Office 365 without AI inside?

Anonymous
2024-12-03T14:50:29+00:00

Good evening,

The subscription prices for office 365 for 2025 increased by 50% because of AI, is it possible to subscribe to office365 without it and keeping the same price as now please? If yes can you provide a link?

Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-04T06:36:16+00:00

    Hi Xavier C1

    Thanks for using Microsoft products and posting in the community.

    I realize that you've encountered a problem of Microsoft 365.

    If you want to subscribe to Microsoft 365 without copilot, i.e. without Ai functionality. you need to set up a subscription according to the following.

    1. If you haven't subscribed to the higher priced Microsoft 365 with copilot yet
    • Visit account.microsoft.com.
    • Select the Microsoft 365 subscription you have and select “Manage”.
    • Select “Cancel Subscription ”
    • View “Switch to a subscription that suits you better” and select “Microsoft 365 Personal /Family Classic”.
    • After following the instructions to complete your subscription. Your subscription will automatically renew to Classic when its existing subscription expires.

    2. If you have renewed at a higher price:

    Payments questions often involve sensitive personal information that should not be shared publicly in a forum.

    For these reasons, we recommend that you contact Microsoft Live Chat Support to resolve your issue and avoid disclosing your personal information in this public forum. 

    Visit this website: Contact Contact - Microsoft Support

    Sign in with your personal Microsoft account.

    Enter your problem in the search bar. For example, subscriptions.

    Click Get Help at the bottom of the page, and then click Contact Support.

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    Under Products and services, select “Microsoft 365 and Office”.Under category, select“Manage and my subscription”.Click Confirm.

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    Choose "Chat with a support agent in a web browser".

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    Tell them you need to switch back to the Classic Subscription

    Note: Chat support is only available during business hours. Therefore, if the last window shows as unavailable, try reopening it the next day.

    Let me know if this is contrary to what you need.

    Best Regards.

    Petter.Y - MSFT | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-12-29T05:42:39+00:00

    Hi,

    Your solution does not work, I have cancelled my subscription but there is no "switch to a subscription that suits you better" and I cannot find any offer named classic, only the family one and the personal with AI.

    The way Microsoft forces its AI on its customers is absolutely unacceptable.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-01-13T02:01:14+00:00

    Hi

    This is absolute BS.

    This should not be an opt out system, it should be opt in.

    I am fully aware MS is counting on people ignorance to let this slide to justify MS's massive investment in the AI tech, but just stop.

    I don't want this.

    I don't want to have to contact anyone.

    I don't want Clippy jnr trawling my data.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-01-12T22:07:21+00:00

    I found the same thing. I'm not interested in prepaying for AI services, they do not help me or my family and are literally harmful to the environment with the amount of power required to run them.

    I consider the way this has been set up to subscribe as deliberately complex, I'm going to report this to ACCC as I suspect this is a breach of AU law regarding how subscriptions are meant to be enacted and how changes in subscriptions are meant to work. I'm also a MSFT shareholder and I do not consider this to be on the spirit of how I expect my business to operate.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-02-25T01:14:28+00:00

    I also have the same issue. A.I is rubbish. it's good for illiterate people, non native speakers that need a little help. However, like many others complaining about this subject we never gave permission for this intrusion nor do I want it. I do not need a substandard A.I to help me. A lot of my vocabulary is unknown by the A.I and it cofuses it! So it comes up with some random word which totally defeats the object of my having Office. To be clear, I have enjoyed using Office and hope to in the future without A. I.

    Regards a disgruntled customer.

    Paul

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