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 👍🏻

  • madthumbsEnglish
    24·
    2 days ago

    “This will happen to Office 2021 and 2024 in the future”

    not stated by the article

    The Verge article isn’t making any of these ridiculous claims.

    • Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      If the licensing mechanism is the same then it will in fact happen due to expiring certificates (I have not checked if it’s the same)

      • madthumbsEnglish
        16·
        2 days ago

        You’re grasping. The whole OP is grasping.

        • Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish
          51·
          2 days ago

          Do you know how certificates work? I do. I run a cryptography forum. Expiration is the simplest of the mechanisms in certificates (it’s just a date stamp and time limit rule) and it’s 100% perfectly predictable what it will do.