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Microsoft punishes idiots who purchased a "perpetual" license of Office 2019 for Mac by disabling it next month, pirates unaffected (www.theverge.com)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48806122

A license verification certificate expires and when it expires, Microsoft Office for Mac assumes it's unlicensed even if it has been fully paid for.

So, any idiot who paid for Office 2019 for Mac "perpetual" will lose access to it next month.

The same will happen with Office 2021 and Office 2024 in the future.

Pirates are unaffected, only who paid for the product gets punished

Good job 👍🏻

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[–] 13 points 2 months ago* (8 children)

As if Microsoft was founded just yesterday and wasn’t scamming everyone at everything for like decades, right?

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  • [–] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    They don’t have a history of undoing perpetual licenses though. I mean, I know people who still use a licensed copy of office 2000

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  • [+] -16 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    Now they have. The point is, if you trust that company for whatever reason, it’s your problem. What makes you believe they’re to be trusted? That they changed? There’s nothing that indicates that, yet people keep not just using their unprofessional incompetent code glued stack, they pay money for it.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Oftentimes it’s not a choice. Microsoft office is a de facto standard in many professional contexts.
    I personally avoid using Microsoft products whenever I can but that doesn’t mean everybody has that luxury.

    And I cannot blame anyone buying a perpetual licence when the alternative is a subscription.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not defending this action from Microsoft, but for most people, they buy a Microsoft product and then happily use it for years, none the wiser to any of Microsoft's other nonsense happening in the background.

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  • [+] -18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    Coming from a background where software is usually pirated and not paid for (which I don’t support now), it’s a special kind of weird to pay for that shite. I mean, who could have guessed? Me personally, I have no empathy for those. Go buy the next license from Microsoft, I guess. Till they screw you again.

    If you pay for something, pay for quality. I understand people who buy Apple stuff, it’s not even overpriced when you consider all the factors. Windows people are fooling themselves, and it’s really fun to watch. ‘Idiots’ is the right word in my book. So I vibe with the title, it’s more correct than the Verge’s one.

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