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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/48806122

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 👍🏻

  • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    I never paid for a single Microsoft product.

    I get your point but why is ignorance to be accepted but corpo behavior isn’t? I mean sure, fuck MS for that, but who is really surprised by a US-company enshittifying their already bad crap? Can only be people who don’t really know what they’re doing there. Which is ignorance.

    Your example kinda lacks in the regard that everyone needs insurance but noone needs Microsoft office. Otherwise same point (assuming there’d be a good free healthcare alternative): if you died because you’re ignorant to the things that matter in this world, and you refused to educate or inform yourself beforehand… Well?

    If I leave my front door wide open, I can’t be surprised when someone comes in and robs me blind. Just because I don’t know burglaries exist.

    • Epzillon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 hours ago

      The example was mostly a shitpost but it got the point across. And yes, ignorant/stupid people will always exist, en-masse actually. For varying reasons, be it cultural, education, emotional, religious or just pure ignorance, people end up in shit because they have different outlooks, needs and experiences. The reasons seldom matter to me since its usually not the victim that actively tries to end up in the shitter but the perpetrator that actively attempts to exploit them.

      Luckily companies arent people, no matter how much US government wants them to be. They should, to the nit-pickiest of levels, be restricted by the law and punished when they break it.

      Victim-blaming to me seems inherently ignorant in itself. How does one even come up with the idea of blaming someone whos the victim of the crime? No matter how ignorant or naive they seem. And especially when its from a well-known shit company like Microslop?

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        5 hours ago

        since its usually not the victim that actively tries to end up in the shitter but the perpetrator that actively attempts to exploit them.

        Fair point. I stand corrected. Guess I wash a bit too harsh in judgement.

        Victim-blaming to me seems inherently ignorant in itself. How does one even come up with the idea of blaming someone whos the victim of the crime?

        Touché. That was indeed ignorant of me.