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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)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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 πŸ‘πŸ»

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[–] 35 points 2 months ago* (9 children)

I'm not sure I'm cool with calling people 'idiots' in this scenario. We don't blame the victims of con men when they're stolen from, and this is the same thing, just on a bigger scale.

That said, here is the obligatory linking to LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/

It's free and a better choice.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    We need to quit focusing on stuff like this. If somebody calls you a fucking idiot so fucking what?

    And we do blame the victims constantly. The people that blame the victims do nothing but fucking win.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    i read it as sarcasm, i would write it like that, especially if i was one of them

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    I read it as someone kinda being a dick, but it's the Internet. Meaning isn't always well-conveyed electronically. That's why we have the sarcasm tag.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Had you gone as far as the article you would have seen the disclaimer that makes it clear it's sarcasm.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    I did.

    The title of the article is 'Microsoft is disabling Office 2019 for Mac next month', which makes it pretty clear that the editorializing of the title here on Lemmy was intended to be a bit dickish, at least to me.

    If I am wrong, cool, but it's not because I didn't look at the article.

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