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 👍🏻

  • Dvixen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    1 day ago

    Not surprised in the least. It’s all about maintaining incoming cash flow.

    They cancelled my Win11 (from purchased Win10 eligible upgrade) key earlier this year when I replaced a failed motherboard.

    Happy to be free of their ecosystem. Should have jumped free long ago.

      • Dvixen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        22 hours ago

        Thanks! Still having some problems with sound popping, but had that under Windows. >.<

          • Dvixen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            19 hours ago

            Mint. I’ve gotten the popping/crackling to a minimum, but it’s still happening occasionally. (Oddly it happens most often with games that have sound disabled both by OS and via in game)

            • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
              1·
              15 hours ago

              It was annoying enough I saved it, I highly recommend starting some sort of docs setup so future you can remember how you fixed things. This fixed it for me, granted I was on pop but both Ubuntu based so same layers underneath.

              Audio Crackling

              You can fix this by increasing the minimum audio buffer size, which, in turn, will increase the overall audio latency.

              It’s not good for real-time professional audio recording, but it won’t hurt the general gaming and multimedia experience unless you use a very high value to the point it leads to a noticeable desync with video. Test with a greater minimum quantum

              This takes effect immediately, but it won’t persist across reboots.

              This worked for me

              pw-metadata -n settings 0 clock.min-quantum 2048

              Increasing the minimum quantum permanently

              The default is 1024.

              cat << EOF > ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire.conf.d/fix-crackle.conf context.properties = { default.clock.min-quantum = 2048 } EOF
systemctl --user restart pipewire wireplumber

              You can revert this by just deleting the file. Alternative method

              This will improve the handling of low-latency audio at the expense of overall higher CPU usage and with that, power usage.

              sudo kernelstub -a threadirqs reboot