Tell HN: MS365 upgrade silently to 25 licenses, tried to charge me $1,035
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reliefcrew
davidstarkjava
Haha, fair point. Honestly I should be thanking them for believing my side project will magically hit 25 employees overnight!
But yeah, the contrast is wild. Try to delete an empty text file? "ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE?". Try to upgrade a $3 billing plan? "Let me just casually attempt to charge you $1k while you blink
0xCE0
What you described is true, I also experienced this same:
cable2600
This is why I use LibreOffice instead of Microsoft365.
davidstarkjava
I love LibreOffice for documents, but in this case I was specifically trying to set up custom domain email routing (Exchange) for my project. Sadly LibreOffice can't host my MX records haha. If only setting up decent email deliverability was as easy as installing an open-source word processor.
azarai
I've been using Fastmail for years now to host emails for my domains. Works like a charm. Maybe worth for you too.
john_saptra
recently i was helping a a friend purchase a custom domain, and signup to a email service; even though i use fastmail, i was surprised to find proton was like 3eur per month (fastmail is 5eur). when my renewal expires, i will probably switch to proton - for 10eur the features are really good;
> There was no clear pop-up, no "Are you sure you want to
You haven't learned MSFT's m.o. yet... this kind of pop-up only shows up when you're absolutely certain about something, like removing files. In those cases they ask for confirmation endlessly and needlessly.
When they're trying to collect money, they go ahead and quickly guess with all the defaults as they see fit. I'm surprised the default isn't 1000 seats tbh. After all, you're certain to be a huge success now that you've chosen them as a vendor.
;-)