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Re: Microsoft quietly disable Office 2019 'perpetual' license

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Rod Speed wrote:
> noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote
>> Nomen Nescio wrote
>
>>> Forcing everybody onto subscription model.
>>> Well open sauce alternatives here I come.
>
>> we put apache's open office on all boxes (windaz as well as linux), 
>> ok so
>> it doesnt have "publisher" but seriously, its 21st century and even M$
>> doesnt support it last I heard
>
> You are wrong about that, but support is ending soon
>
> There is nothing like Access either
>
>> -AOO because I've used it since forever, waaaaayyy back when it was the
>> original sun's star office, it's suited my needs perfectly and the
>> businesses since, so they dont make releases every 3 months, only when
>> they need to, IMHO *that* is a good thing, shows maturity.
>
>> -Libreoffice, did look at it twice some years apart, despite its core
>> code is actually open office, they made it bloatware, it ran slower than
>> M$ office and way slower than AOO, NFI how they butchered it that badly,
>> so we stick to what we know.
>
> Works fine and identically to open office for me

LO is fast on my system. I use Linux Mint and since Libre Office is 
native to it I haven't bothered to install OO.

-- 
Linux Mint 22.3

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Microsoft quietly disable Office 2019 'perpetual' license Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2026-05-31 07:42 +0200
  Re: Microsoft quietly disable Office 2019 'perpetual' license noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> - 2026-06-01 07:37 +1000
    Re: Microsoft quietly disable Office 2019 'perpetual' license "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2026-06-01 09:15 +1000
      Re: Microsoft quietly disable Office 2019 'perpetual' license Axel <none@not.here> - 2026-06-01 10:41 +1000

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