Updating software to make it not work should be illegal.
Anyway, for people with casual office needs, the Apple apps (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) would suffice.
Otherwise, LibreOffice.
Really, no reason to pay for MS Office.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
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Aren’t the new versions of Apple office apps heavily pushing their subscriptions now?
I use it pretty regularly at home, and haven’t seen anything that significant other than the premium templates being highlighted in the sidebar when you create a new document.
I did run into a scenario where you had the option to preview smart features while editing thereby showing you how it could be applicable in the immediate short term, but then annoyingly removed the data entered if you didn’t want to subscribe. Otherwise it works about the same as you’d come to expect the software to run.
This is a piss poor excuse from Microsoft for letting a certificate expire. How fucking hard is it to renew a certificate? I do it every fucking day at work. This is purely just forced/planned obsolescence. They want users to use their subscription-based platform on the web.
Ask anyone in IT or tech and they'll confirm that this is the easiest thing for Microsoft to do, the veil is so thin here, it's purely to get people to pay them a subscription.
Libreoffice
LibreOffice is generally better anyway. I'll admit there are some formatting things I find smoother in Office, but overall it's bloatware and it keeps crashing. I really hate Office and avoid it whenever I can.
I can’t recommend this enough. I have been using LibreOffice for a few years and saved myself a lot of money.
Saved even more money a few months ago when I fully switched my OS to open source and left the Microsoft/Apple walled gardens behind.
You only had one job
And now it has a second life... pushing people to libre office!
And it did that job for 7 years.
Just cut off the programs internet acces and any updates to it, then they cant break it.
This was my favorite version of office for the Mac.
For PC, I held onto Office 2003 Professional for as long as I could.
Euro-Office
I think you were downvoted because Euro Office has made the mistake of supporting Microsoft document formats above all else and don't have good support for the ODF alternatives at the moment.
They have since said they want to do better, but they're off on the wrong foot.