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 👍🏻
If people are buying such software on their own dime, they’re getting played. Happens once, OK you didn’t know it was a con job. Happens twice, you’re a fool…
But if it’s on your company’s dime, meh, not your problem.
Absolutely fair points but I think it should be illegal to sell a “perpetual” license - perpetual means everlasting - and then it turns out to not be perpetual
They should be forced to honor the perpetual contracts
Yeah, I’d say they’d be looking at a class action suit if it weren’t for the fact that it’s just so easy to apply a pirate crack.