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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 ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

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[โ€“] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

The Apple office apps are still free, but they do have an add-on subscription too now.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 months ago

    Yes... I was able to disable the subscription-oriented tools from Numbers (Excel) but not Pages (Word). Maybe I didn't try hard enough. They're marked so you can just not click on them, but there's a way to hide them. I did it on one, I can probably do it on the others.

    They're completely free with a subscription for GenAI stuff that wasn't there before. They didn't take anything away from the free product.

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