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Get a clue what you get for $20 and then come back and tell us how we can get all that's included for free. Keep in mind most people don't live under a rock and have to be able to share files with work and the rest of the world and need 100% compatibility with these apps.
I'm currently on a Family plan that renews in April. Any advice? Thanks!
Depends how the financials work out for you. You can buy one or more of these, convert to individual, then buy a month of family to convert it back. So you could buy 4 of these, go through the process, and end up with about 4.5 years of family for $125 ish. But you lose a bit of what you paid for family originally doing it that way.
Or you can just buy these for $30 and each will add 9 months to your existing family subscription. Only get the 12 month one, not the 15, as both will convert to 9 months of family.
Depends how the financials work out for you. You can buy one or more of these, convert to individual, then buy a month of family to convert it back. So you could buy 4 of these, go through the process, and end up with about 4.5 years of family for $125 ish. But you lose a bit of what you paid for family originally doing it that way.
Or you can just buy these for $30 and each will add 9 months to your existing family subscription. Only get the 12 month one, not the 15, as both will convert to 9 months of family.
99 a year is the list price, nobody pays that, that's what SD is for
Buy 5 of these for $150, add them to your MS account, then pay for 1 month of family through MS (you have to wait a month I believe as the most you can have is 5 years total). That converts the entire 5 years to family for like $7 more. Or do 1 year or 2 or 3 or whatever you want.
Thanks. I was just doing the basic apples to apples comparison. I have all 4 devices in my house connected to 1 family outlook account just for windows activation and it says it can connect up to 5 devices simultaneously and 1TB is plenty for the whole family compared to the 200GB I'm getting with Google Drive. I was just shocked that Microsoft would have a better plan than Google but that's what I get for being complacent.
99 a year is the list price, nobody pays that, that's what SD is for
Buy 5 of these for $150, add them to your MS account, then pay for 1 month of family through MS (you have to wait a month I believe as the most you can have is 5 years total). That converts the entire 5 years to family for like $7 more. Or do 1 year or 2 or 3 or whatever you want.
I have added 5 personal codes to my account. I only see upgrade option. How do i buy 1 month family subscription ?
I have added 5 personal codes to my account. I only see upgrade option. How do i buy 1 month family subscription ?
As I said, if you load it up with the full 5 year limit, you may need to wait a month. But go under the upgrade and see if there is an option for "monthly". If so, you just buy it (you may not get an extra month), then after it goes through, turn off recurring billing.
The conversion is never guaranteed, it will tell you on the upgrade screen if they're going to prorate or not. In the past, they never did, but I haven't done it in a while. I just tested it on a personal account I have and the upgrade screen is showing I'll get the full amount of time converted to family. YMMV
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It's 1TB of storage per account, up to 6 accounts. If you don't mind making extra email addresses with the family plan, then it's definitely better than your current pricing with Google. You can also buy the family plan through your employer for $70 plus tax (if your employer participates in the Microsoft Workplace Discount Program).
If you want 6TB of storage in your OneDrive ID, this is the hack:
1) Create 5 other emails and share your family O365 with them.
2) Create the O365 ID
3) Next create a folder and share it with your primary O356 id with full RW privileges
4) Now your main O365 DI will have 5 folders with 1TB limit with full RW privileges... so in total you can store 6TB Data in your primary ac.
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As I said, if you load it up with the full 5 year limit, you may need to wait a month. But go under the upgrade and see if there is an option for "monthly". If so, you just buy it (you may not get an extra month), then after it goes through, turn off recurring billing.
The conversion is never guaranteed, it will tell you on the upgrade screen if they're going to prorate or not. In the past, they never did, but I haven't done it in a while. I just tested it on a personal account I have and the upgrade screen is showing I'll get the full amount of time converted to family. YMMV
Thanks. In upgrade its just prorated. I am losing around 3-4 months. I will check again
Thanks. In upgrade its just prorated. I am losing around 3-4 months. I will check again
Even if they've fixed the glitch for new accounts/subscribers, still works out to be the best deal you can get on family. If you add 1 year of personal to a family plan it removes 3 months. If you're only losing 3 months off 5 years, that's pretty good.
Even if they've fixed the glitch for new accounts/subscribers, still works out to be the best deal you can get on family. If you add 1 year of personal to a family plan it removes 3 months. If you're only losing 3 months off 5 years, that's pretty good.
Ya you're correct. Worked exactly as you described
Ya you're correct. Worked exactly as you described
Odd, on my account is not prorating but I've been a subscriber on that account for 5+ years so it may be grandfathered in. On that account (individual, not family) I just add a year as needed when one of these deals pops up, no tricks or anything (though I do enable and disable auto pay each time to get the free month, sometimes 3 free months).
Their terms used to say you would not lose anything by converting to family, but so many people did it, they changed the terms to say you would lose 15% of the time when converting, but everyone said they weren't losing anything. So maybe it only applies to new subscriptions/accounts.
But 15% would be like 9 months lost, so apparently they aren't even fully enforcing the new terms.
Odd, on my account is not prorating but I've been a subscriber on that account for 5+ years so it may be grandfathered in. On that account (individual, not family) I just add a year as needed when one of these deals pops up, no tricks or anything (though I do enable and disable auto pay each time to get the free month, sometimes 3 free months).
Their terms used to say you would not lose anything by converting to family, but so many people did it, they changed the terms to say you would lose 15% of the time when converting, but everyone said they weren't losing anything. So maybe it only applies to new subscriptions/accounts.
But 15% would be like 9 months lost, so apparently they aren't even fully enforcing the new terms.
Regardless, a good deal no matter what.
Yes. Its not 15% cut a year. Its total 5 years out of 3 months taken out. You're correct on getting free months turn off and turning on recurring payment. Its better deal i needed to backup synology somewhere on the cloud this best deal.
Odd, on my account is not prorating but I've been a subscriber on that account for 5+ years so it may be grandfathered in. On that account (individual, not family) I just add a year as needed when one of these deals pops up, no tricks or anything (though I do enable and disable auto pay each time to get the free month, sometimes 3 free months).
Their terms used to say you would not lose anything by converting to family, but so many people did it, they changed the terms to say you would lose 15% of the time when converting, but everyone said they weren't losing anything. So maybe it only applies to new subscriptions/accounts.
But 15% would be like 9 months lost, so apparently they aren't even fully enforcing the new terms.
Regardless, a good deal no matter what.
I have been using O365 for long and have been using Personal codes to extend my Family plan, and every time I use a personal code, I get 9 months of family.
The earlier hack was that you create a 1 person account, then add 4 years of extension to it, and then covert the personal acc to family account by 1) turning on auto renew and adding 1 months of Family 2) adding 1 years of Family code.. this converted your full Personal account to Family without loss of any months. But once you are on family plan, you cant use this hack any more...
Even if they've fixed the glitch for new accounts/subscribers, still works out to be the best deal you can get on family. If you add 1 year of personal to a family plan it removes 3 months. If you're only losing 3 months off 5 years, that's pretty good.
Sorry, whats the glitch? Dont you lose 3 months for every 12 mo you convert?
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I have been using O365 for long and have been using Personal codes to extend my Family plan, and every time I use a personal code, I get 9 months of family.
The earlier hack was that you create a 1 person account, then add 4 years of extension to it, and then covert the personal acc to family account by 1) turning on auto renew and adding 1 months of Family 2) adding 1 years of Family code.. this converted your full Personal account to Family without loss of any months. But once you are on family plan, you cant use this hack any more...
Actually you could/can convert back to personal at the end and do the hack again, and people didn't lose their data or accounts etc as long as you did it quick enough.
The hack seems to still work for existing accounts like mine, apparently new ones lose 3 months off the 5 years, but still a great hack. That may also because the other user loaded up with 5 years and didn't wait a month before converting.
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There's probably also another group that get it for work compatibility reasons.
If someone doesn't fall into one of those two categories, then yes, free versions make sense.
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Or you can just buy these for $30 and each will add 9 months to your existing family subscription. Only get the 12 month one, not the 15, as both will convert to 9 months of family.
Or you can just buy these for $30 and each will add 9 months to your existing family subscription. Only get the 12 month one, not the 15, as both will convert to 9 months of family.
Buy 5 of these for $150, add them to your MS account, then pay for 1 month of family through MS (you have to wait a month I believe as the most you can have is 5 years total). That converts the entire 5 years to family for like $7 more. Or do 1 year or 2 or 3 or whatever you want.
Buy 5 of these for $150, add them to your MS account, then pay for 1 month of family through MS (you have to wait a month I believe as the most you can have is 5 years total). That converts the entire 5 years to family for like $7 more. Or do 1 year or 2 or 3 or whatever you want.
The conversion is never guaranteed, it will tell you on the upgrade screen if they're going to prorate or not. In the past, they never did, but I haven't done it in a while. I just tested it on a personal account I have and the upgrade screen is showing I'll get the full amount of time converted to family. YMMV
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If you want 6TB of storage in your OneDrive ID, this is the hack:
1) Create 5 other emails and share your family O365 with them.
2) Create the O365 ID
3) Next create a folder and share it with your primary O356 id with full RW privileges
4) Now your main O365 DI will have 5 folders with 1TB limit with full RW privileges... so in total you can store 6TB Data in your primary ac.
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The conversion is never guaranteed, it will tell you on the upgrade screen if they're going to prorate or not. In the past, they never did, but I haven't done it in a while. I just tested it on a personal account I have and the upgrade screen is showing I'll get the full amount of time converted to family. YMMV
Their terms used to say you would not lose anything by converting to family, but so many people did it, they changed the terms to say you would lose 15% of the time when converting, but everyone said they weren't losing anything. So maybe it only applies to new subscriptions/accounts.
But 15% would be like 9 months lost, so apparently they aren't even fully enforcing the new terms.
Regardless, a good deal no matter what.
Their terms used to say you would not lose anything by converting to family, but so many people did it, they changed the terms to say you would lose 15% of the time when converting, but everyone said they weren't losing anything. So maybe it only applies to new subscriptions/accounts.
But 15% would be like 9 months lost, so apparently they aren't even fully enforcing the new terms.
Regardless, a good deal no matter what.
Their terms used to say you would not lose anything by converting to family, but so many people did it, they changed the terms to say you would lose 15% of the time when converting, but everyone said they weren't losing anything. So maybe it only applies to new subscriptions/accounts.
But 15% would be like 9 months lost, so apparently they aren't even fully enforcing the new terms.
Regardless, a good deal no matter what.
I have been using O365 for long and have been using Personal codes to extend my Family plan, and every time I use a personal code, I get 9 months of family.
The earlier hack was that you create a 1 person account, then add 4 years of extension to it, and then covert the personal acc to family account by 1) turning on auto renew and adding 1 months of Family 2) adding 1 years of Family code.. this converted your full Personal account to Family without loss of any months. But once you are on family plan, you cant use this hack any more...
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The earlier hack was that you create a 1 person account, then add 4 years of extension to it, and then covert the personal acc to family account by 1) turning on auto renew and adding 1 months of Family 2) adding 1 years of Family code.. this converted your full Personal account to Family without loss of any months. But once you are on family plan, you cant use this hack any more...
The hack seems to still work for existing accounts like mine, apparently new ones lose 3 months off the 5 years, but still a great hack. That may also because the other user loaded up with 5 years and didn't wait a month before converting.
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