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Microsoft punishes idiots who purchased a "perpetual" license of Office 2019 for Mac by disabling it next month, pirates unaffected (www.theverge.com)
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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 πŸ‘πŸ»

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 21 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm not sure I'm cool with calling people 'idiots' in this scenario. We don't blame the victims of con men when they're stolen from, and this is the same thing, just on a bigger scale.

That said, here is the obligatory linking to LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/

It's free and a better choice.

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

We need to quit focusing on stuff like this. If somebody calls you a fucking idiot so fucking what?

And we do blame the victims constantly. The people that blame the victims do nothing but fucking win.

[–] CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

And some of us ARE idiots, no need to throw us under the bus, it’s still wrong to take advantage of stupid people

[–] rapchee@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

i read it as sarcasm, i would write it like that, especially if i was one of them

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

I read it as someone kinda being a dick, but it's the Internet. Meaning isn't always well-conveyed electronically. That's why we have the sarcasm tag.

[–] Simon_Shitewood@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Had you gone as far as the article you would have seen the disclaimer that makes it clear it's sarcasm.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

I did.

The title of the article is 'Microsoft is disabling Office 2019 for Mac next month', which makes it pretty clear that the editorializing of the title here on Lemmy was intended to be a bit dickish, at least to me.

If I am wrong, cool, but it's not because I didn't look at the article.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They mean that when it was originally posted on the db0 Lemmy piracy community, there was a disclaimer to say it was sarcasm

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Well, maybe they should have clicked through to the article.

/s