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Can someone else affirm this? Have you recorded it? If this is real it'd be great to have evidence.

Ah, that was it then? I'm currently forced to use this crap. I had to run office from a virtual machine because office 365 was terribly unreliable. Like, it started fucking up highlights and shits.

In any case, word sucks even if it does not actively try to suck. I have a big list of complaints. If ms has to resort to this tactics, they are actually suffering us.

Yeah, Microsoft is gambling that the number of users who care enough to act are too small, or won't bother, or won't realise they can.

This is how big corporations get away with this shit. It's not "illegal" in the criminal sense, but it is a breach of contract between Microsoft and those affected; and they likely could win against Microsoft.

The good news is the outrage over this is probably more damaging than any settlement or long drawn out legal case even would be. It's at just the right time as Microsoft deals with major issues and unhappiness with Windows users over poor updates, crappy feature changes to Win 11 and of course force feeding of CoPilot down every users throat, while also decimating their own staff to save money for AI and polluting their own products codebases with shitty AI generated slop. Perfect storm has hit Microsoft, and they don't even realise how bad it is yet.

class action lawsuits pretty much only exist to enrich lawyers

Nah mate, farming was where we took the wrong turn. We should go back to hunter/gatherer. I'd kinda like to keep my steam deck tho hmm

https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/So-Long-Neofetch-and-Thanks-for-the-Info

That is certainly a very lemmy thing to say

On a Mac Apple‘s Office suite is the better choice.

"But the interface looks slightly different and I'm scared of being in charge of things"

It was never bad.

If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing

This is the way.

If they can just break something I’ve paid for… then it is fair for me to take it without paying

Why steal a moldy bread when there's fresh bread for free? https://www.libreoffice.org/

(Also, the moldy bread is highly addictive and watches you masturbate)

Edit 2: Nevermind. 13th October is the day Microslop has chosen to fuck me: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/system-requirements/end-of-support-for-office-2021

You'll still get a few years before the software becomes remotely disabled, though. This story about Office 2019 losing functionality follows Office 2019 losing support in 2023. If that's the rate things go, then maybe Office 2021 will lose functionality either 2 years from now (7 years after release) or 3 years from now (3 years after losing support).

I bitched and moaned when office 2007 came out. Stupid ribbons. Still hate that shit. Only thing MS office has going for it, that I haven't found elsewhere, is collaboration and Danish grammar check. I haven't found proper grammar check in my native Danish yet, outside of ms office that is. But if my job decided to ditch its pricey office subscriptions, I'd be cheeringly installing libreoffice.

I do hope I get a chance to retrieve all my emails when I get shut out for raising an arthritic middle finger and telling Google to go fuck themselves when asked for ID. I got my gmail account when people still paid for invites. How can I be underage? I wasn't even underage then.

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

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

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."

it's not the 'phoning home' that's doing this. they built-in a time bomb by way of an expiring digital certificate. one that won't get updated or replaced because the software versions in question are 'out of support'.