> Companies were paying for more than 30 million Copilot subscriptions as of the end of June. And while individual users are free to use limited versions of Copilot’s chat experience, its most powerful tools are reserved for subscribers to the company’s M365 apps bundle, which has about 90 million paying users.

It needs to be more widely known that if you cancel a (home) 365 subscription, you'll be offered a cheaper version without AI integration.

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deckar01 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Now if I could just get them to start paying me cash for training their AI on my open source code and selling it rather than being force fed a Copilot grant.

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pfortuny 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sorry what? Honest question.

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doubled112 9 hours ago | parent [-]

Microsoft allows you to subscribe to Microsoft 365 personal or family without AI for a small discount, but they hid the option on a page you can only get to if you click cancel on your subscription.

	▲	misswaterfairy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Microsoft are currently being sued in Australia by consumer protection (ACCC) over this practice.