Microsoft 365 Family 15 Month Subscription (Digital Code) $159

• +20·wonderboy4·4d ago

  I'm not dissing this deal, I'm sure it's good for some people. But when did needing to subscribe to Microsoft for ever, just to use basic office apps become an acceptable thing? (I genuinely didn't realise Microsoft were up to this, until I saw this post 😅) I just hate subscription models like this so much!😡✊ I use Libre Office, it's free and it works well imo. I'm only doing basic stuff from time to time, but is there that much difference for all that extra (endless subscription) money? I'm guessing for most people the answer is probably no. But maybe some people are locked into the Microsoft system because of work/compatibility issues? Anyway, I am curious to know what the Microsoft version does better/differently?

• +16·incipient·4d ago

  People are buying this for the 6x1TB cloud storage/backup.

• +10·ThatDealsGuy·4d ago

  Most of the value is in the 100GB email storage and 1TB Onedrive storage. This Family subscription allows you to add up to 5 other people (6 total) and they all get their own 100GB email storage and 1TB onedrive each. so $10.60 / 6 = $1.77 per month per person, which is pretty cheap. Previously they also let you add a custom domain and if you did before it was removed then you can keep it. Not possible to add anymore, but I'm grandfathered in to using my own domain for emails

• +10·Mugsy·4d ago

  I don't know a single person who has a MS365 Family account for access to Office. Everyone I know with it subscribed for the OneDrive storage… namely for Camera Roll back up. Don't get me wrong… I don't like subscriptions as much as the next guy. To this day, I still haven't played World of Warcraft and don't have Spotify, Netflix, etc as I am that much against subscriptions. But when it comes to cloud storage, there's only so far free storage will get you unfortunately. If you have up to 6 people who all need a good amount of cloud storage, the MS365 Family account makes a lot of sense vs individually getting a larger Google Drive or Apple Cloud subscription.

• +10·iamnobody·3d ago

  Other legit way of getting discount is via the Microsoft Workplace Discount Program. You can check whether your work email gives you 30% off on the Office 365 subscriptions typing it here https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/workplace-discount-program I am paying AU$125.30 for 12-months of Microsoft 365 Family, once you redeem the code to your own email as usual you can set it to auto-debit and will keep the discount forever, no need to link it to the work email and can share it with 5 other people as usual. If you have an edu email you can access Microsoft 365 for free as well enjoy an Azure student subscription here https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/students

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