Microsoft Wants to Sell More Consumers a Software Subscription
New Microsoft 365 for families adds office programs and tools from tracking kids and their app use
Go open source. Libreoffice [libreoffice.org] for an office suite and Thunderbird e-mail client [thunderbird.net] for email if you need something away from gmail. Both are free but a donation is suggested if you like them. I have donated to both.
. . . good suggestion, but
That word "free", I don't think it means what you think -- hence the terms "Libre" and "gratis"