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 👍🏻

  • Moonrise2473@lemmy.mlOP
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    6 days ago

    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”

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      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.

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        22 hours ago

        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

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          9 hours ago

          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.

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            4 hours ago

            “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?