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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 ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

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[โ€“] -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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  • [โ€“] 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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