The AI is mandatory now, and so is the $3
Microsoft 365 Personal and Family prices rose $3/month with Copilot bundled in
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Notepad, free since 1985, grew a subscription
Notepad's AI Rewrite moved behind a paid AI credits paywall
May 2025: the Series X learns what $599.99 feels like
Xbox raised console, controller and game prices worldwide
Perfect Dark canceled, The Initiative closed, in the year of the handheld
Xbox canceled Perfect Dark and Everwild and closed The Initiative in July 2025 cuts
September: the other shoe, $150 total in five months
Xbox raised US console prices again four months later
Game Pass Ultimate up fifty percent overnight, cut back within a year
Game Pass Ultimate jumped from $19.99 to $29.99 in the October 2025 lineup shuffle
Windows 10 is done. The ransom note is $30.
Windows 10 support ended October 14, 2025; consumers offered a $30 one-year ESU