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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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[–] 2 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Yeah, LO equivalent is to use python inside calc but you can use python outside of Excel just as easily so there's no reason for people to switch from what they currently have.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    that's like saying you can ise visual basic outside of excel, so there's no point in using it in excel

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Thanks for spelling-out the stupid for me. My brain was hung-up on the correct way to un-fuck logic I would rather not understand, for a moment. "Too stupid for words" came to mind, and the phrase just sorta ... hung out, wasting time.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    If you're already completely set up in Excel, there's no reason to switch.

    If you're set up in LO using visual basic outside of it then that would also mean there's no reason to switch. Either way it doesn't translate to the other.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    If you're already completely set up in Excel, there's no reason to switch.

    is there no reason? licensing issues (like certain not so old purchased versions just getting disabled globally)? windows lock-in?

    If you're set up in LO using visual basic outside of it then that would also mean there's no reason to switch.

    what do you think, how is visual basic used in a spreadsheet? how do you imagine it being used outside of the spreadsheet app?

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    You're missing the point. Excel works just well enough/LO doesn't have a big enough killer feature for companies to justify the cost of switching.

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