alt Hacker NewsThis change would go against multiple consumer guarantees in Australia where it's 1) a right to have undisturbed possession of a product 2) products must be fit for the advertised purpose https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/buying-products-and-servic... Microsoft would be breaking consumer law if the change goes ahead for the perpetual licenses they sold in Australia
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Also, it's Office 2019, but they were officially selling it until the end of 2021, and third-party sellers were selling through their boxed inventory for years after too. So, this isn't even that old a piece of software.
And, let's not forget, this is trillion dollar corporation. They could find one of their Mac devs to write an update for this in a week. The negative publicity from this is measured in millions of dollars.
The Microsoft recall debacle perfectly illustrates why 'ship it now, fix it later' creates more problems than it solves - especially when the damage is persistent and hard to undo.
And this won't be their first time breaking Australian Consumer Law... Twelve months ago no less!
https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/microsoft-in-court-for...
The ACCC is going to love this.