Microsoft is disabling Office 2019 for Mac next month
www.theverge.com
A certificate issue means Office 2019 for Mac users won’t be able to edit or save documents starting July 13th.

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 👍🏻

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I was activating office installs for customers from the early 2000s not that long ago. Wtf happened that they are now disabling 2019?

    • Wispy2891@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      It turns out that in modern versions (for Mac) they inserted a timebomb that disables the license check.

      “Sorry the software now is EOL we can’t send an update to disable the timebomb that we set five years ago”

      Users of office 2021 are luckier (for now) because it goes EOL in October, so they can receive the June patch that moves the July timebomb forward another five years