It’s not as lucrative as it used to be, and I think it’s actually cheaper to just pay for gamepass now, especially if you can grab the 6 or 12 month cards.
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Don’t know a single person that uses YouTube Music, so not even thought about it
I do. 
My wife also moved from apple music to Spotify to YouTube music and has said she much prefers it now.
Not sure if it’s come up in this thread previously, but you can usually get a good deal through Amazon or Currys - they frequently do the family pack for 15 months (including some antivirus which you don’t need to use) for £50-55. You can buy it whenever and apply it to your account well in advance of the renewal date.
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Or you could move to LibreOffice and pay nothing.
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I just want to know who is in charge of branding at Microsoft. Who one earth thought it would be a good idea to rebrand it to Microsoft 365 Copilot, with essentially the same logo as Copilot itself?
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Very much agree with this, usually pay around £50 for 15 months, so about £3.50 a month or about 85p a week. And you can give your mortal enemy the copy of McAfee and condemn them to a fate worse than death.
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Is the slight challenge here (very much first world problem) if you have a job that uses Microsoft office? I’m guessing they have to make it different enough Microsoft don’t come after them?
I’m not sure if it’s with the effort remembering two ways of doing everything. Given as mentioned above it’s less than a £1 a week for office?
If your work uses Microsoft 365, you may find each licenced user gets five desktop installs - and your IT department might be OK with you using one for a personal machine. My last company explicitly said they were happy to do so.
The vast amount of cloud storage they give subscribers is quite handy too.
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Sadly mine doesn’t, but great suggestion for others - free is the best price!
YouTube Music comes nowhere near Apple Music for me and neither does Spotify. I listen to a lot of classical music and prefer certain orchestras and conductors.
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If you’ve kids, they can probably get It free from school or uni.
Damn the one time they would have come in useful! But I suspect they’d cost me more than the £50 a year for office, so probably not worth getting some just for it. Thanks for the tip though, hopefully others can benefit from it.
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Anyone else use Duolingo? At this point I don’t really want to pay so interested in anyone who uses the free version.
I have been using the free version for years. It’s fine, though when you’re an absolute beginner and more likely to make mistakes it can be a bit more annoying to try and make do with 5 lives.
I have just deleted it though, the annoying notifications turned me off. Got a Babbel lifetime sub.
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I’ve never heard of Babbel, same type of thing I assume? Was it expensive?
I’ve been using it for a good while but I find it doesn’t really work for me so I’m going back to Rosetta Stone.
It’s similar in that it’s a language learning app, but I find it leagues better than Duolingo. For languages I’m interested in, Duolingo doesn’t have any explainers, so the teaching method is just to beat patterns into you until you recognise them, but won’t learn what and why.
Babbel on the other hand has lessons that explain things, and their example sentences are a lot more useful in real life compared with Duolingo that talks about blue rabbits writing letters.
And no annoying owl.
I think I got their lifetime sub during Black Friday, £180 for access to all their languages (12 or 14 I think).
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We have the family plan, so works out quite cheap for each that have an account (max 6 I think?)
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Apparently Duolingo have 60% off which makes it £47.99 a year.