Microsoft is disabling Office 2019 for Mac next month
www.theverge.com
A certificate issue means Office 2019 for Mac users won’t be able to edit or save documents starting July 13th.

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 👍🏻

  • 87Six@lemmy.zipEnglish
    141·
    1 day ago

    What’s most interesting and baffling to me is that most people think libreoffice “breaks” things. But so far, every time I looked into it, libreoffice “breaking something” usually flows like this:

    • Excel implements some functionality in non-standard ways.
    • Calc / libreoffice goes to apply the functionality using the correct, standard way.
    • Sheet is now “broken”, aka not with the expected data.
    • I get yelled at for having dared to use Calc to copy paste some data in a file without even touching scrips or pivot tables or whatever the hell.

    Every. Single. Fucking time.

    I got to a point where I tell them to wank off if they ask me to do something and I don’t have easy access to Windows.