{"id":16242,"date":"2025-12-18T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=16242"},"modified":"2025-12-18T12:07:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T12:07:53","slug":"time-to-ditch-microsoft-365","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=16242","title":{"rendered":"Time to ditch Microsoft 365"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/microsoft-365\/blog\/2025\/12\/04\/advancing-microsoft-365-new-capabilities-and-pricing-update\/\">Microsoft has recently announced<\/a> it is raising the price of its Microsoft 365 offering from July 2026.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The new pricing for using Microsoft 365 will be applicable worldwide and as follows.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_16255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16255\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/download-3-600x702.png\" alt=\"Microsoft&#039;s pricing for the various MS 365 products from 1st July 2026\" width=\"600\" height=\"702\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/download-3-600x702.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/download-3-257x300.png 257w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/download-3-768x898.png 768w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/download-3.png 792w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy of Microsoft<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<p>Many people will no doubt be considering alternatives to this Microsoft subscription services to help keep business costs in check.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Fortunately, many free and open source alternatives to the services provided by Microsoft 365 are available, work just as well and won&#8217;t cost users a penny. Email provider <a href=\"https:\/\/tuta.com\">Tuta.com<\/a> (<em>recommended! Ed.<\/em>) has kindly provided a useful summary under the <em>deMicrosoft your life banner<\/em> which is shown below should you consider ditching Redmond&#8217;s overpriced office offering and its other software.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_16252\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16252\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/microsoft-alternatives.BKHs4IiN_1GXz44.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/microsoft-alternatives.BKHs4IiN_1GXz44-600x750.jpg\" alt=\"Free and open source alternatives to Microsoft products\" width=\"600\" height=\"750\" class=\"size-large wp-image-16252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/microsoft-alternatives.BKHs4IiN_1GXz44-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/microsoft-alternatives.BKHs4IiN_1GXz44-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/microsoft-alternatives.BKHs4IiN_1GXz44-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/microsoft-alternatives.BKHs4IiN_1GXz44-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/microsoft-alternatives.BKHs4IiN_1GXz44-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/12\/microsoft-alternatives.BKHs4IiN_1GXz44.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click on the image for the full-sized version<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has recently announced it is raising the price of its Microsoft 365 offering from July 2026. The new pricing for using Microsoft 365 will be applicable worldwide and as follows. Many people will no doubt be considering alternatives to this Microsoft subscription services to help keep business costs in check. Fortunately, many free and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30],"tags":[36,19,24,12,11,23],"class_list":["post-16242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","tag-comment","tag-free-software","tag-odf","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16242"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16260,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions\/16260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}