Libreoffice. I tried it long ago and it was bad, but that is no longer the case. Give it a chance
“But the interface looks slightly different and I’m scared of being in charge of things”
Whats really funny is that the interface is closer to MS Office 2003 which was Office pre “ribbon” interface. So the current version of MS office is actually the weird one that changed.
You can change the interface, including a ribbon style interface.
To be fair the interface is pretty kluncky. But it’ll do.
It was never bad.
Piracy is now fully justified
If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing
It’s only logical
This is the way.
If they can just break something I’ve paid for… then it is fair for me to take it without paying
Why steal a moldy bread when there’s fresh bread for free? https://www.libreoffice.org/
(Also, the moldy bread is highly addictive and watches you masturbate)
“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
LibreOffice is $Free.99, y’all.
My digital life has gotten noticeably better since switching to Linux and other FOSS
Working is better and sorpressively, gaming is better as well… also, i may have saved my GPU because of switching to linux for gaming.
Yay, that’ll be a fun day at work… I’m in charge of administering our fleet of Macs and all the users use MS Office heavily. We are currently not allowed to provide access to Office 365 for data protection reasons, so if they brick the volume license we are currently using I won’t have a viable solution for them, beyond switching to OWA/Apple Mail and some other office suite.
The writing’s been on the wall for a while though. They recently made it so that you can’t hide the Office 365 nag screen while using a volume license, which confuses users into thinking they don’t have a license. I fucking hate Microslop.
Edit: As far as I can tell this will only affect users using a 2019 volume license (which is already not compatible with current versions), but the 2021 license will continue to work? (Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/update-microsoft-365-or-office-on-your-macos-or-ios-device-f418ae5d-bb5f-4078-b3d9-9340f5dd084e ). I’d definitely be interested if anyone has more information. In any case, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time until they fuck everyone not using a subscription based license for any of their products.
Edit 2: Nevermind. 13th October is the day Microslop has chosen to fuck me: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/system-requirements/end-of-support-for-office-2021
Edit 2: Nevermind. 13th October is the day Microslop has chosen to fuck me: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/system-requirements/end-of-support-for-office-2021
You’ll still get a few years before the software becomes remotely disabled, though. This story about Office 2019 losing functionality follows Office 2019 losing support in 2023. If that’s the rate things go, then maybe Office 2021 will lose functionality either 2 years from now (7 years after release) or 3 years from now (3 years after losing support).
True, but running EOL software that doesn’t receive updates to known vulnerabilities isn’t really an option.
Yeah, but that’s always been true of paid software licenses for a particular version: it reaches EOL and you have to decide whether to live with the possibility of unpatched known vulnerabilities or pay for an upgrade to a more recent release.
MS Office has been doing this from back in the Windows 3.0 days at least.
True. But Office for Mac uses the same installer for 365, 2021 and 2024 (and 2019 until they EOL’d it). It’s not that they stop updating old software. They just arbitrarily decide you no longer get the updates if you’re on an older license.
Just swap to Libre. And if your job is working on spreadsheets just quit. Lets all go back to farming and trading goods. Or just install Linux.
Nah mate, farming was where we took the wrong turn. We should go back to hunter/gatherer. I’d kinda like to keep my steam deck tho hmm
I switched to OpenOffice.org(now LibreOffice) when Microsoft replaced menus with ribbons.
And I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo after being a Google user from nearly the very beginning, because they tried to claim earlier this week that they couldn’t prove I was over 18 years old unless I provided them my legal identification.
Thanks Google, I can’t imagine how the fact that I’ve physically been using your product and logging into the account for more than 20 years would leave any question in your mind that I’m over 18 years old, but you do you.
No regrets with LibreOffice. None.
I bitched and moaned when office 2007 came out. Stupid ribbons. Still hate that shit. Only thing MS office has going for it, that I haven’t found elsewhere, is collaboration and Danish grammar check. I haven’t found proper grammar check in my native Danish yet, outside of ms office that is. But if my job decided to ditch its pricey office subscriptions, I’d be cheeringly installing libreoffice.
I do hope I get a chance to retrieve all my emails when I get shut out for raising an arthritic middle finger and telling Google to go fuck themselves when asked for ID. I got my gmail account when people still paid for invites. How can I be underage? I wasn’t even underage then.
I do hope I get a chance to retrieve all my emails when I get shut out for raising an arthritic middle finger and telling Google to go fuck themselves when asked for ID.
Just going to remind you, because I appreciated when someone reminded me: The best time to run a ‘Google
CheckoutTakeout’ to get a backup is now.Edit: Thanks.
How is this even legal?
Because legislation related to Stop Killing Games has not yet passed.
If it is, in fact, legal, it’s because there’s a weasel clause in the clickwrap that says, in effect, “We can change this agreement in any way at any time. Not you, just us.”
$$$
Honestly just use LibreOffice. It’s pretty good.
I distinctly remember the conversations about Office’s phone home system and people specifically saying “this seems problematic” and Microsoft hand waving those concerns away.
it’s not the ‘phoning home’ that’s doing this. they built-in a time bomb by way of an expiring digital certificate. one that won’t get updated or replaced because the software versions in question are ‘out of support’.
Literal planned obsolescence
more like forced obsolescence, planned implies they do it in the future, but MS is forcing it now.
It was planned at the time they released it…
Well it kinda is because that certificate is needed for the phoning home. If it didn’t need to communicate at all it wouldn’t have needed an SSL certificate so there would have been nothing to expire.
Microslop doing Microslop things as per usual.
They even edited information about support, it was meant to work but they edited it to your files will be safe and openable in word 365 app
Just wait. Mac users usually have more money than they need, so they can easily afford lawyers to beat into MicroSlop.
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