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 👍🏻

  • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    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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      10 hours ago

      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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        8 hours ago

        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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        10 hours 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.