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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 -2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

At what point past the official support window are they required to make updates?

I have a bunch of software that I have bought licenses to over the decades. At around a decade if a company is still supporting a product it seems like going above and beyond.

Iโ€™d been able to get support from adobe on photoshop 6 about 12 years after it was released and that seemed pretty extra.

[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Seeing how it's a trillion dollar company, I think they can spare the few pennies to renew a cert, even 50 years later to keep the "lifetime" license going for everyone. They're not asking for new features or individual support. We're all saying it's a cert. Take the few minutes to renew it.