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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)
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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 ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

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[โ€“] madthumbs@lemmy.world -2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"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.

[โ€“] Natanael@infosec.pub 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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)

[โ€“] madthumbs@lemmy.world -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You're grasping. The whole OP is grasping.

[โ€“] Natanael@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day 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.