Fuck Subscriptions

Abso-fucking-lutely.

Also, if anyone out there's wanting to learn about other ways to get away from paying for subs, I did a series of videos on this earlier this year.

That was not a real sale.

It's a fake article pretending that there's a sale in order to make affiliate money selling grey market keys from msdn. Those keys activate, but they don't come with a valid license to use, those are supposed for testing only on that specific msdn account.

It works like this: the fake tech blog gets 40%, the rest goes to the keys seller, Microsoft gets 0%.

Fuck Microsoft, but at that point is more ethical to just use massgrave and activate it for free

Honestly, as much as I want to shit on Microsoft, this is probably more a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. They're a massive disorganized mess of a company.

You do whatever you want with the resources and constrains you have.

But in my humble opinion, the best move would have been to migrate to LibreOffice and make a donation matching the MS Office license, or migrate to Collabora office (it's based on LO), or another opensource alternative.

Again: that may not be possible for you personnally, and I'm not judging. This is only to remind everyone there are alternatives out there.

I bought RAM in 2026 because of how much I want to finally get rid of Windows. Can't wait to get my build up and running.

someone with an affected version would have to try that, but i'm guessing if legit perpetual 2019 licenses are dead upon expiry of that certificate, mas won't help either. moving to 2021 or newer won't work either, as the affected users' macos version won't support newer office versions.

but affected macs that are still running office 2019 have serria or high serria, and can't run libreoffice (current requires os11)

Amen! Nothing but Google here.

/s

Software is made by people (good software, not slop) ~~which~~ who deserve a living too. Expensive, extortionate software pricing is a different thing.

I'm very happy with my monthly payments (donation) to libreoffice, freecad, KDE, e/os, signal, among a few others.

Games have a cultural element to it.

Non-game software doesn't. It's much harder to convince politicians.

The argument for non-game software would be economical. But most big companies pay the subscriptions, since they want to have the latest version (if not for the features, at least for the security patches). So they're not affected. The most affected by this is consumers and small companies. Which don't have a lot of power.

The way to fix this is to support the competitors that don't do this kind of shit. For office in particular, there's even free alternatives.

Not really. People should be encouraged, after seeing how bad the software provider treats them, to switch to open source - or at least to software of less shitty companies. You can't do that with games - each game is a unique^1 piece of art and culture.

Can't be bothered to go any further than the headline, eh?

He made a vid on it.