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Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations (www.osnews.com)
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[–] devolution@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (4 children)

How is this even legal?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

Because legislation related to Stop Killing Games has not yet passed.

[–] Jestzer@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Because it’s Microsoft and whether anybody likes it or not, they’ll do whatever they want and at best, lose a few pennies.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If it is, in fact, legal, it's because there's a weasel clause in the clickwrap that says, in effect, "We can change this agreement in any way at any time. Not you, just us."

[–] Repelle@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

Wait, did one of them actually say this?