The notice arrived on Halloween.
Thank you for being a valued Microsoft 365 subscriber. To reflect the value we’ve added over the past decade, address rising costs, and enable us to continue delivering new innovations, we’re increasing the price of your subscription.
Effective February 14, 2025, the price for Microsoft 365 Family subscriptions will increase from USD 99.99* per year to USD 129.99* per year.
Let us set aside for now the more inspiring details, like this email going out on a holiday and the price increase going into effect on another holiday, and that the people at Microsoft deem themselves to have added 30% value to the work and perhaps lives of their subscribers “over the past decade.” My only response to these things is respect. In the words of The Wire’s stickup man Omar Little, “All in the game, yo. All in the game.”
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