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Re: Microsoft quietly disable Office 2019 'perpetual' license

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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

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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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