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[–] 32 points 5 months ago (6 children)

You know whats really weird? Office 2019 just went on sale a few weeks ago.

https://www.techspot.com/news/100909-get-microsoft-office-29-one-time-purchase.html

It's like Microsoft wanted to squeeze a few extra dollars out of customers. But id be pissed if I bought it and found out it was being locked down 3 weeks later...

Although to be clear only the Mac version is being discontinued. For now.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    That was not a real sale.

    It's a fake article pretending that there's a sale in order to make affiliate money selling grey market keys from msdn. Those keys activate, but they don't come with a valid license to use, those are supposed for testing only on that specific msdn account.

    It works like this: the fake tech blog gets 40%, the rest goes to the keys seller, Microsoft gets 0%.

    Fuck Microsoft, but at that point is more ethical to just use massgrave and activate it for free

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Honestly, as much as I want to shit on Microsoft, this is probably more a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. They're a massive disorganized mess of a company.

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