Microsoft Office 2021 Perpetual License Disabled After Software Update(learn.microsoft.com)
7 pointsby nialse2 hours ago2 comments
  • gnabgib15 minutes ago
    This is in Mac-Office, the reporter apparently didn't see the outcry 5 months ago:

    Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (1015 points, 376 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48341578

    Microsoft Deliberately Bricking All Office for Mac 2019/2021 Installations (16 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390461

    Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac Will Soon Stop Letting You Edit Documents (25 points, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48391060

  • nialse2 hours ago
    Casually opening a Word document to do some adjustments, a number of popups appeared. Word is disabled until buying a M365 license. It's not that it doesn't get updated, editing is disabled. How on earth do they get away with this?
    • Danoxan hour ago
      Don’t let them, just move on. The days are pretty much over in terms of using Microsoft Word at a personal level away from the office why? It doesn’t add anything special, the only program worth using is Excel. And even that is slowly fading away. Adobe and Quark are also declining too.
    • d3Xt3ran hour ago
      > How on earth do they get away with this?

      By having trillions of dollars, that's how. Even if they get hit with a lawsuit, it'll be some million dollar fine, which is chump change for them.

      The best way to deal with this is to not use their products in the first place. And now that we've got OnlyOffice and ArtCraft, there's almost no reason to continue using the MS Office suite, unless you're a corporate customer.

    • bell-cot2 hours ago
      How on earth do they...

      They are the 900# gorilla, and the screams of the smallfolk have no effect on their bottom line.

      • Danoxan hour ago
        They are sadly mistaken. Microsoft is slowly fading away to irrelevance. In fact, the age of Nandella is coming to an end I’ve said it before. “Microsoft does not know how to compete when the playing field is level” and the same applies to their evil twin Intel.
        • bell-cot28 minutes ago
          You are thinking long-term. In the late-stage capitalist taxonomy, long term is a subspecies of lip service.