This is an affront in several ways. 1) Apparently bait and switch is fair play now? The fact that it took years for the hook to be applied makes it no less wro

This is an affront in several ways. 1) Apparently bait and switch is fair play now? The fact that it took years for the hook to be applied makes it no less wrong. 2) Apparently we cannot buy software anymore. I don't want 90% of upgrades but they force me to buy them as "subscriptions" now. How many do you have now that virtual monopolies are converting from buy one copy of software to "subscribe only"? Google Apps is just another in this "hook the user on free access -- then milk them forever once they are committed," business model. Office, Creative Suite, what's next Chrome?, Edge?, Firefox?, Acrobat? Google seems now 100% devoted to evil. My advice is: 1) create an HTTPS WEBDAV server to sync your photos to. I did this a year ago when I realized that my bill for photos would increase forever if I didn't erase the old ones as I took new ones. Switching to my own hardware is like getting a print of those film negatives... 2) host your own email 3) Get an old copy of Word and Excel (who cares about new features?) EFF killed cert costs, may they turn to these other commodities... Once you go through this painful transition you'll only pay for Internet access and the hardware to run it.