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 👍🏻

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      19 hours 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.works
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        12 hours ago

        Oof. Those were typos. I meant LibreOffice ☠️ brainfart

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