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I think this article and the referenced Office Watch article have been obsoleted by MS. in a chat with the Microsoft Store Assistant (Copilot) when I gave a screenshot that my Family renewal was scheduled for early Feb at $99.99  I was told…

Copilot said:

Thank you for patiently waiting, as per checking on the screenshot, this is the old price of the Microsoft 365 Family, which is the Classic version, however, if you really wanted to renew it on the same price, you can follow the steps below:

Go to account.microsoft.com/services.

Select their M365 subscription and select “Manage”.

Select “Cancel subscription”.

Look under “Switch to a subscription that’s better for you” and select “Microsoft 365 Family/Personal Classic (whichever applies).

We can no longer process stacking for Classic since the original subscription now has AI integrated on the Office apps.

You said:

do you allow stacking for the non-classic version?

Copilot said:

Unfortunately, no, however, the subscription should auto renew on the billing date.

Now I am curious whether an auto-renewal at $99.99 will actually occur or if I won’t be railroaded into the price increase. Regardless, seems like stacking is dead?

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Tiny installed well but THERE WAS NO BROWSER! WTF! Can’t connect to anything.  Tiny is gone.

I found that the Duck Duck Go Privacy add-on was the culprit. Although I want to be protected I don’t want the protection to come at the loss of connectivity! I removed it and good old firefox was back.

I “think” I have followed the general wisdom to pause updates and I have relied on the DefCon notes to do my updating. But I am confused about pausing updating and yet allowing the KB4550945 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1909 to update. The complication for me is that apparently I can unpause updating and this KB4550945 will dl and be installed. Will there be any other (not desired at this time) updates? I also understand I can go to the Microsoft Catalog and get KB4550945. There are several versions (including needing to figure out what the heck is difference of an ARM64 or an x64 system which I figured out). So finally I put on a blindfold, ripped off the bandaid, swallowed the red pill and dl’ed and ran the x64 version.

Good news. The Universe did not cease to exist in the last 1/2 hour and I can’t tell than anything changed (for better or worse). So happy day!