MS office has never been cheap or included

I guess you don’t remember a time when spreadsheets sold for $495 a seat. And that was just the spreadsheet. IIRC, Excel 1.0 retailed for $99.

	▲	ssl-3 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		One source[1] says the first release of Excel (for the Mac, in 1985) had a price of $395, or about $1,200 in inflation-adjusted 2026 dollars. [1]: https://archive.org/details/history-of-PC

add-sub-mul-div 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's $8.30/month. It's cheaper than Netflix and Amazon Prime.

	▲	snmx999 28 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Over 50 years' time that's $4980.

Forced +$30 per seat per month to get people loaded into their proprietary AI