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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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[-] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Absolutely fair points but I think it should be illegal to sell a “perpetual” license - perpetual means everlasting - and then it turns out to not be perpetual

They should be forced to honor the perpetual contracts

[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 10 hours ago

perpetually in this insatnce means, for as long as they say

[-] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago

Yeah, I'd say they'd be looking at a class action suit if it weren't for the fact that it's just so easy to apply a pirate crack.

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