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Microsoft punishes idiots who purchased a "perpetual" license of Office 2019 for Mac by disabling it next month, pirates unaffected (www.theverge.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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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 👍🏻

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[–] 23 points 4 months ago (8 children)

I’m far from a spreadsheet super user, but Excel really is in a class by itself. The rest of the office suite, however, is easily replaced by open source.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago* (5 children)

    Try LibreOffice calc.

    I think Word is harder to replace because formatting issues assuming documents are in word format

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I use Calc, and it does just fine for my use case. But I know people in finance whose work relies on the powerful advanced features excel has and LO just doesn’t yet.

    Funny enough, I haven’t touched a word processor or slide deck program in years.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    But python is more of a first class citizen in libreCalc.

    You can use Numpy, Pandas, matplotlib, etc... In both excel and librecalc since recently and excel has a hacky runtime inside of it that often has to be restarted if leaving it idle for too long.

    You can do 10x what you can do in excel + VBS with python packages. Dataframes alone for data analysis is night and day compared to VBS hacks.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry, but no. It's awful. Tried it out when I was doing my taxes. Basic shit is just hidden and convoluted it just not possible.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I find it even more convoluted in Excel. But it is subjective. In any case, I agree it is convoluted. I think (no proof) the old style Excel menus were used as basis for libreoffice.

    But, just like with any software, search it once and you learn how. Takes a while but it's great when you get the hang and get everything set up for your use case.

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