Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac

From	Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject	Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac
Date	2026-05-15 07:26 +0200
Organization	Camembert Normand au Lait Cru
Message-ID	<10u6apm$91ns$1@solani.org> (permalink)
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On 15.05.26 07:19, Alan B wrote:
> Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> posted:
> 
>>
>> From July, Office 2019 will only work in read-only mode and similarly for
>> Office 2021 later this year. 
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoftoffice/s/vOlz8ICdP
>>
>> This only affects Macs and seems like particularly shitty move by them. 
> 
> I think a lot of people (such as I) will be abandoning M$ Office in favour 
> of alternatives such as LibreOffice.

The future belongs to FOSS software anyway. It is platform independent.

That is what I use for decades.


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Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 05:02 +0000
  Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2026-05-15 07:17 +0200
    Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 18:11 +0000
  Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac Alan B <user237@newsgrouper.org.invalid> - 2026-05-15 05:19 +0000
    Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2026-05-15 07:26 +0200
    Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2026-05-15 06:56 +0000
      Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2026-05-15 10:28 +0200
        Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac "David B." <David@hotmail.co.uk> - 2026-05-15 13:24 +0100
          Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2026-05-16 08:56 +0200
            Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac "David B." <David@hotmail.co.uk> - 2026-05-16 09:48 +0100
        Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-05-15 15:44 +0000
          Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> - 2026-05-15 18:54 +0200
            Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2026-05-15 17:28 +0000
      Re: Microsoft degrading older Office installations on Mac Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2026-05-15 18:11 +0000

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