Microsoft is disabling Office 2019 for Mac next month
www.theverge.com
A certificate issue means Office 2019 for Mac users won’t be able to edit or save documents starting July 13th.

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 👍🏻

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    10·
    2 days ago

    Do people even bother pirating this shit? Surely they just use one of the many free alternatives that do exactly the same job?

      • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        Isn’t that a Firefox fork, not a productivity suite?

        Edit: realized you meant FOSS software that didn’t retain mainstream telemetry/ads

        • VeryFrugal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          22 hours ago

          Oof. Those were typos. I meant LibreOffice ☠️ brainfart

          Librewolf does everything any other browsers would do, and more!