alt Hacker NewsMicrosoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion
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If digital purchases are not ownership then piracy isn't stealing.
class action lawsuit?
maybe i'll eventually get a settlement for my multiple Office Mac licenses that won't buy me a latte. what a joke.
note to self: never buy anything from MSFT ever again.
Just use LibreOffice or other better tools like TeX instead of a WYSIWYG editor. With AI it is easier than ever to port existing documents, even if you have to OCR the original.
> By May 30, 2026, the original 2023 end-of-support page had been re-dated and rewritten on Microsoft's site; the "continue to function" clause was removed.
Never fails to impress how utterly Orwellian these big techs can be.
They do this to Office 2021 routinely if your computer is offline more than about 30 days at a time. I run LittleSnitch to keep Microsoft blocked; my copy of Excel periodically goes into "read-only" mode. So I unblock Microsoft, let Excel talk to the license server, and then block Microsoft again.
Now Microsoft says my Excel will never work again. I'm pissed. Time for an FTC complaint.
I guess that means they are fine with users ignoring their rights too? Just crack their software until something better comes along?
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.
If you’re still using Microsoft products at this point it’s your own damn fault. They have been doing this shit for years… decades.
You can always trust Microslop to screw you over despite any past promises to the contrary.
Companies might need Microsoft, but why are people panicking who could replace ms office with other office suites? Why aren’t they abandoning Microsoft products? From office suites to windows?
Explains why sites like stackcommerce have been selling discounted keys for Office.
the faux outrage is maddening; you knew they were snakes when you bought the product and you bought it anyway
There are many open source alternatives/upgrades to M$$$ products.
No reason to keep using them. Literally none.
I have been a happy exclusive only user of OO/LibeOffice since 2004. Some times I needed to use MSOffice for a paper. It was always problematic.
I haven't use VS since 2007. I migrated to gcc. Never had a problem.
SQLServer? Only for demo and at work just to pull or save data. Postgres always saved the day. Windows Media Player? MPClassic or VLC worked fine.
There maybe other alternatives I use without knowing. Always without problems.
another tick in the "never ever have a partnership with Microsoft" column...
Another situation in which the fragility of CA TLS creates finite and very short software lifetimes. No software that uses CA TLS can say their applications "will continue to function". But Microsoft did and that's on them.
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Remember when we used to revoke corporate charters for anti-social behavior?
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Only morons use microsoft office products willingly. Haven't bought a copy of office, ever. I used to buy corporate laptops for $200 with $250 copies of office on them. Have been 100% on google docs since 2015.
I’m trying to build SmallDocs, a new markdown first browser based document format (mainly for ease of use by agents): https://sdocs.dev
More info on a ShowHN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777633
More users for LibreOffice.