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Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations (www.osnews.com)
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[โ€“] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] horse@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

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.