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Re: Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice

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From Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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Subject Re: Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice
Date Thu, 16 Jan 2025 17:25:49 -0500
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On Thu, 1/16/2025 4:40 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> If you’re stubborn about sticking to Windows 10, here’s another bit of
> functionality Microsoft is going to take away from you: use of
> Microsoft Office/365.
> 
> <https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/15/24344209/microsoft-365-office-apps-windows-10-end-of-support>
> 
> So what other choice do you have apart from going to an alternative
> like LibreOffice? Or abandoning Windows altogether, and embracing the
> greater options available with Linux?
> 

Run a VM. Next.

Right now, I have a Win11 in a VMWare product, with "swtpm".
The Win11 doesn't have a license. And you don't put licenses
of the "normal" sort in a VM, because Microsoft tech support
won't help you with those. There may be some Enterprise SKU for
that.

But if you wanted to move your rental software, you could do it
that way.

I'm not sure you can do that with VirtualBox, as the passthru TPM
support (no "swtpm") did not work on my other machine. And I don't
really know how to debug that.

At the current time, you can *buy* the non-rental version of Office
and use that instead. The rental version is not the only version
(unlike an Adobe perhaps).

   Paul

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Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-16 21:40 +0000
  Re: Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-16 17:25 -0500
    Re: Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-17 00:07 +0000
      Re: Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-16 20:27 -0500
        Re: Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-17 02:37 +0000
          Re: Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> - 2025-01-17 00:05 -0500
            Re: Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-01-17 05:40 +0000
              Re: Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2025-01-17 05:44 -0500
  Re: Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2025-01-17 07:40 +0200
  Re: Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-01-17 15:20 -0800

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