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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€“] worhui@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

While people are piling on Microsoft, I have had issues with older software needing workarounds for certificates. Especially on the Mac OsX.

How is this anything other than a basic security cert issue?

[โ€“] BillCheddar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

So that means Microsoft doesn't need to honor their contracts with users?

Interesting legal strategy, cotton.

[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

That's all it is, which is why it's so obvious they just want people to subscribe now. Very issue is the smallest thing they could do, and they can't be bothered.

Folks tell your Mac friends about Libre Office

[โ€“] worhui@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

The stand alone versions of office(2021 and 2024) that are under support are being updated and work. So this isn't directly targeted to end all standalone support.

It's nothing special to Microsoft and is more an issue with vintage software. Early security models require some level of cracking to install vintage software even on vintage hardware with a vintage OS.

The hardware it was made for has almost rolled off processor support.

If you can find an official release tagged back to the publisher on archive.org your going to have to put some work in. https://archive.org/details/Office-2019-Collection

[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 hour ago

This isn't that some architecture isn't supported or there's some new unseen dependency that failed, it's a cert expiry. Something that happens millions of times per day and can be completely automated.