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Re: Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion

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Post by harry8 »

dangus wrote: post #8

I would encourage affected customers to go to small claims court. You’ll probably get a default judgment. Small claims court was created for just this type of issue.

But they’ve got you. Nobody uses Microsoft office turdware unless they’re locked in and have to.

You lose access to it. You’re cooked.

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Post by Barbing »

harry8 wrote: post #11
dangus wrote: post #8

I would encourage affected customers to go to small claims court. You’ll probably get a default judgment. Small claims court was created for just this type of issue.

But they’ve got you. Nobody uses Microsoft office turdware unless they’re locked in and have to. You lose access to it. You’re cooked.

I actually have a retiree in mind to whom I’ll have to recommend LibreOffice https://libreoffice.org

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Post by nikcub »

I believe the urgent deprecation timeline here may be related to ai labs using offline licensed Office in agents as part of workflows and Office integration. Microsoft wants _each_ agent instance to be a separate license[0]

There was always a probability that Microsoft were going to funnel offline users into O365 at some point - but I imagined that to take place over months / years not weeks and days.

Buying a single license for thousands of agents may have expedited that. It has resulted in non-Microsoft labs having better ai integration into their products than Microsoft.

edit: just read the detail of the note - so this is a cert expiry as part of Apple dist that is being warned about ~2 months before it happens. Standalone on Mac has a term limit.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-suggests...

Re: Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion

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Post by dangus »

harry8 wrote: post #11
dangus wrote: post #8

I would encourage affected customers to go to small claims court. You’ll probably get a default judgment. Small claims court was created for just this type of issue.

But they’ve got you. Nobody uses Microsoft office turdware unless they’re locked in and have to. You lose access to it. You’re cooked.

You’re right, I’m sure nobody’s made any kind of mass activation scripts that you could find online and get a better experience than paying customers.

Re: Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion

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Post by nytesky »

Did Apple pay them to drop support to boost their revamped Numbers/Pages/Keynote suite (ClarisWorks Infitniy.0).

Obviously this is a joke, though there was a period when Microsoft invested in Apple to serve as a stand-in foil for the anti-trust lawsuit. So tactical investing for something other than monetary ROI has precedent …

Re: Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion

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Post by amluto »

dangus wrote: post #8

I would encourage affected customers to go to small claims court. You’ll probably get a default judgment. Small claims court was created for just this type of issue.

IMO it would be better if there was a general mechanism to prevent profiting from corrupt business practices. For example, a court could determine how much money Microsoft made by selling perpetual licenses that turned out to be a lie, add interest, add a 50% penalty, and require Microsoft to pay all of that into a trust to be collected by any customers harmed.

The point would not be so much to help the customers but to cause the actual cost to Microsoft to be sufficiently high as to disincentivize corrupt behavior.

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