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 👍🏻
Disclaimer: I wrote “idiot” to describe someone who paid for the product not because they’re actually idiots, but it’s because Microsoft is treating them like that: their official solution on the website is “simply subscribe to the latest and greatest or buy a new “perpetual” license to office 2024 to continue using what you paid for”
Nah I think you summed it up pretty well. People who bought an overpriced machine, and then decided they’d run overpriced software on it. Two companies I wouldn’t touch with a galaxy sized pole. If they didn’t learn anything from them before this, they will be as described.
Where do you buy a galaxy sized pole?
Costco
i think people should be able to live peacefully as idiots without being fucked over by greedy corpos but thats just me i guess
no, actually, STOP BLAMING THE IDIOTS YOU FUCKING DOUCHEBAG. HELP THEM MAKE BETTER CHOICES IF YOURE SO GODDAMN MUCH BETTER THAN THEM.
i hate your antisocial holier than thou attitude
You going to make it?
When you try, they just laugh. They’re not going to verify anything. They do it on purpose. It is their fault.
“people that are stupider than me, that’s their fault”
Whelp you heard it here first folks, apparently some people get to manually allocate IQ points before birth?
Weird thing quotes are. Ignorance, which is what I was describing in this case is intentional.
No the original commenter said idiot, with some caveats that it’s not because the people are stupid, it’s because they’re being treated like idiots by the company, and you reply, yeah no actually they are just idiots
You never wrote the word ignorance before now
Bulshitt ass backpeddling. You have only written ‘its their own fault’ untill now. And then you try to act like ‘oh my god dude I’ve only been referring to people keeping themselves wilfully ignorant…’
Okay then fucking write out the words you mean instead of all this other horsecock that you apparently can’t stand by.
You win, you are the best, have a good day.
I wouldn’t even want to pirate it. I like LibreOffice a lot better.
I do some work for an org that is MS office centric. They provide me with an office license, and space in one drive. I essentially use office to check final output to share with them, but do the actual work in LO. The only thing that goes in onedrive is their stuff.
Hows about you don’t even worry about pirating it and just move to opensource?
I’m far from a spreadsheet super user, but Excel really is in a class by itself. The rest of the office suite, however, is easily replaced by open source.
As someone who uses Excel on a daily basis: Excel is a bloated, unstable, bug-ridden pile of crap
Indeed a class of its own, at least since the fall of Lotus.
Try LibreOffice calc.
I think Word is harder to replace because formatting issues assuming documents are in word format
I use Calc, and it does just fine for my use case. But I know people in finance whose work relies on the powerful advanced features excel has and LO just doesn’t yet.
Funny enough, I haven’t touched a word processor or slide deck program in years.
But python is more of a first class citizen in libreCalc.
You can use Numpy, Pandas, matplotlib, etc… In both excel and librecalc since recently and excel has a hacky runtime inside of it that often has to be restarted if leaving it idle for too long.
You can do 10x what you can do in excel + VBS with python packages. Dataframes alone for data analysis is night and day compared to VBS hacks.
These are Mac users we’re talking about here - they’re terrified of anything not produced by a corpo.
This is a common stereotype but there is a reasonably sized group of Linux enthusiasts who work on macs.
Macos is a real unix based OS. (As opposed to unix compatible GNU “Gnu is Not Unix”) and they claim the performance (apples own chips), even in a vm is amazing.
I had at least one coworker who did this, i also remember Emily Young (Who some remember as Anthony from Ltt) also had quite a few apple products in her house.
As someone who lives and works in Silicon Valley, the amount of coworkers and colleagues in my experience in engineering using non-default MacOS configurations is nonexistent. There are things like Asahi Linux (which is an amazing project, don’t get me wrong), but let’s not pretend that the people who use open source software on MacOS are not fractions of a percent compared to the general userbase.
In fact, my experience working in IT professionally and assisting friends and family personally has only underscored that view - those who were actually using Linux and FOSS software professionally were not on Apple hardware (and knew what went wrong and what assistance was needed). Those who I had to assist with Apple hardware… were different strains of “technically inept” who managed to break their experiences despite using default settings (kind of impressive I suppose).
while I’m generally in support of paying for the product you get value from, this just goes to show that you should never purchase a Microsoft license. ever. they do not respect you, their agreement with you, or basic ethics. do not feel bad about pirating Microsoft products.
but even better, just use something else.
Probably the most easiest software to replace: LibreOffice, OnlyOffice, Collabora…
Good job Microsoft!
Meanwhile, in the few cases I need Excel, I just install Office 2013 in Wine.
Dunno if any later version works correctly, don’t even really care tbhMicrosoft is treating these losers the way they are asking to be treated.
Spank me, daddy.
