Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019 installations

[osnews@mstdn.social]

Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019 installations

You're a smart cookie, so you opted to buy a copy of Microsoft Office for macOS back in 2019, eschewing the Office 365 subscription, so you could keep on using Office 2019 forever if you wanted to. Just like in the old days.

I've got some bad news.

Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for M

https://www.osnews.com/story/145179/microsoft-is-intentionally-bricking-all-office-for-mac-2019-installations/

#Office

[schnedan@social.tchncs.de]

@osnews Is ist leagal for Microsoft to change terms like that?

[jmcunx@mastodon.sdf.org]

@osnews

Needs to be said

Yet another and better reason for people to move to #libreoffice and stop using #Office

[compfu@mograph.social]

@jmcunx @osnews Don't get me wrong, I'm using Libreoffice everywhere and installing it anywhere I can. But the MacOS version is not really as good as the versions for Linux/Windows.
I'm using it on a Mac but it's slow and it has UI glitches.

[glitzersachen@hachyderm.io]

@compfu @jmcunx @osnews

So, let's get it repaired ...

[mespique@beige.party]

@osnews

This is amazing in the worst possible way.

So you buy a thing and then you can't use the thing for its intended purpose because the makers of the thing decided seven years later they don't want you to.

Simply flabbergasted.

[3rz@freiburg.social]

@osnews Microsoft, try to brick our Word 3.0 or 5.1a …

[chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net]

@osnews https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/microsoft-revokes-office-2019-perpetual:3